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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Ben Horowitz

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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 manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

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