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Ben Horowitz

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
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
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
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 key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong

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