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

Ben Horowitz

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
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
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
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
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

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

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