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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Ben Horowitz

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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
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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role

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