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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
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
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
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship 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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
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 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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