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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

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
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
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
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 emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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

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