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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management

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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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