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

Ben Horowitz

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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver

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

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