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Ben Horowitz

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
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness

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