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

Ben Horowitz

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
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
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
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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

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

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