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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

Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences 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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Ambition Important Mission
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation

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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