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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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 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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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

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