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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.
Ben Horowitz
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Ben Horowitz
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 13
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Benjamin Abraham Horowitz
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Don't punk out and don't quit.
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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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