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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.

Ben Horowitz

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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People Said Thinking
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
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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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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

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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