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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.

Ben Horowitz

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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 don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
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

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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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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