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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

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse

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