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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

Ben Horowitz

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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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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People Said Thinking
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views

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