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Your employees know each other better than they know you.

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
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train

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