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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

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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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

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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