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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

Ben Horowitz

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
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

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