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

Ben Horowitz

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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
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
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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

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