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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

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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 Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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

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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