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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 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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
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

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