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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually

Ben Horowitz

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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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

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