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

Ben Horowitz

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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
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
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
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
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
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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