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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.

Ben Horowitz

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
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
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks

When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.

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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.

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