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““Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. At””

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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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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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By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics,…

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“The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up…

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“As painful as it might be, I knew that we had to get into the broader market in order to understand it well enough…

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“On my grandfather’s tombstone, you will find his favorite Marx quote: “Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important…

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“Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money." Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?" Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.”

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When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better…

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One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

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“out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.”

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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…

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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

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