where they spend most of their waking hours, becomes who they are. Office culture is highly infectious. If the CEO has an affair with an employee, th… - Ben Horowitz

People offer many complex reasons for why Bill rates so highly. In my experience it’s pretty simple. No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. The first kind is one you can call when something good happens, and you need someone who will be excited for you. Not a fake excitement veiling envy, but a real excitement. You need someone who will actually be more excited for you than he would be if it had happened to him. The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong — when your life is on the line and you only have one phone call. Who is it going to be? Bill Campbell is both of those friends.

Embrace your weirdness, your background, your instinct. If the keys are not in there, they do not exist.

The Struggle is when you go on vacation to feel better and you feel worse.