In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
BEN HOROWITZBusiness ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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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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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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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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There are no silver bullets.
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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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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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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