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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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company

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