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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.

Ben Horowitz

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No 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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running

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