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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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Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand your task is the same.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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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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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
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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 right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
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The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.
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Don't punk out and don't quit.
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