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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Ben Horowitz

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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics

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