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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things

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