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Ben Horowitz

The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
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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Answer Culture Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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 shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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

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