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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
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
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
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
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
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

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