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

Ben Horowitz

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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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

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