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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating

Ben Horowitz

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating

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