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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

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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
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
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

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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