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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
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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Date Example Majority Problem Result
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

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