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Ben Horowitz

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs

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