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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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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Book Enemy Fighting
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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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People Said Thinking
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management

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