It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
BEN HOROWITZA key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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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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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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