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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Ben Horowitz

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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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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Levels Nonsense Running
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs

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