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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

Ben Horowitz

When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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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Dignity Jobs Management
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
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 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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Mind Remember Stories
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
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
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
The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

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