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

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Mind Remember Stories
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
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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 only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys

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