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

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management

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