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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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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Focus Management Stress
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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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Believe Musical Genius People
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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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Decision Lonely Running
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

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