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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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

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