If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
BEN HOROWITZRelationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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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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There are no silver bullets.
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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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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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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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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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