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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
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 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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Differences People Vision
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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

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