Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
BEN HOROWITZBusiness ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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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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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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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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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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There are no silver bullets.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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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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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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