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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
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
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
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
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

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