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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

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
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize

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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