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There are no silver bullets.

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Bullets No Silver

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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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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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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Found Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets No Silver
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Built
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Inspiration Needs
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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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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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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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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Figuring Jobs Turns
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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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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Anything Knows Someone Something
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire
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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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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Fighting

There are no silver bullets.

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