Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
BEN HOROWITZA key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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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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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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