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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

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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

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