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Leadership is hard to train on.

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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
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

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