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

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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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