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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

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
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
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
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result

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