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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Ben Horowitz

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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 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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture

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