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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

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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