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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.

Ben Horowitz

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
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
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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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Differences People Vision
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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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Book Enemy Fighting
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company

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