Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
BEN HOROWITZA key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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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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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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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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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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There are no silver bullets.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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