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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

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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
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
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
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

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