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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.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows 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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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
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

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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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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