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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Ben Horowitz

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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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People Said Thinking
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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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Express Inspiration Jobs People
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks

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