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

Ben Horowitz

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running

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