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

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
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
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

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