In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
BEN HOROWITZRelationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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