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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

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
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
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
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
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation

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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