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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
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

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