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The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Don't punk out and don't quit.
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. 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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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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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