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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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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Employee Knows Management
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
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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People Said Thinking
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart

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