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There are no silver bullets.

Ben Horowitz

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
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
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
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
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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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Lemming Sheep Venture

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