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

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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

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