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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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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Focus Management Stress
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
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

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