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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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 you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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 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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