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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

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.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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

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