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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 quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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 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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills 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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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
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

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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