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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Ben Horowitz

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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

These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

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