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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

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