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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

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
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
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
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
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
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
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics

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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