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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.

Ben Horowitz

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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
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
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
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
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
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
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

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