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

Ben Horowitz

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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
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
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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Answer Culture Management
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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 bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People

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

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