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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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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Levels Nonsense Running
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife

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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