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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

Ben Horowitz

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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
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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Levels Nonsense Running
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks

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