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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

Ben Horowitz

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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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