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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit

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