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Ben Horowitz

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup

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