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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

Ben Horowitz

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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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

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