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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.

Ben Horowitz

Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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 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
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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