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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Ben Horowitz

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
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
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
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years

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