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

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
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
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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 key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation

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

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