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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
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
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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

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