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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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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Losing Succeed Technique
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
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
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want

It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

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