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

Ben Horowitz

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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
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

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

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