In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
BEN HOROWITZSometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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There are no silver bullets.
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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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There are no silver bullets.
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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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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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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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 believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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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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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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