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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.

Ben Horowitz

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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones

In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.

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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.

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