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Ben Horowitz

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self

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