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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.

Ben Horowitz

In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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 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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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

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