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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

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
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
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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
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
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 quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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

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