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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Ben Horowitz

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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role

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