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

Ben Horowitz

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management

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

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