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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 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
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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

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