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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

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
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
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
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique

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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