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

Ben Horowitz

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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Believe Musical Genius People
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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

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