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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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 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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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