You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
BEN HOROWITZThe 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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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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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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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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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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In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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