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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
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
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
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
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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

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