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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating

Ben Horowitz

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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

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