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Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Ben Horowitz

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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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

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