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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.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
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
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

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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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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