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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

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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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 are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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 silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse

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

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