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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable

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