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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
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 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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

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