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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Ben Horowitz

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
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
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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

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