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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

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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 don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result

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