You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
BEN HOROWITZYou 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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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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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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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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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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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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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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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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There are no silver bullets.
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Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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