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

Ben Horowitz

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
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
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

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

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