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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

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks

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