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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

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
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
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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

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