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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
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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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

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