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There are no silver bullets.

Ben Horowitz

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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision

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