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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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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Differences People Vision
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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
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
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 lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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