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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

Ben Horowitz

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting

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