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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair 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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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