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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows 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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made

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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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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