The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
BEN HOROWITZThere are no silver bullets.
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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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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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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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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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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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