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

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

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