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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

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
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
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife

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