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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.

Ben Horowitz

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse

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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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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