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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

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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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Believe Musical Genius People
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
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

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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