You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
BEN HOROWITZBreakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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There are no silver bullets.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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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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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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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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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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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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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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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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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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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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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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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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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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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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