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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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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Lemming Sheep Venture
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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