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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
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
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
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
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result

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