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Ben Horowitz

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management

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