Source: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
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Source: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
“The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.”
“A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.”
“The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.”
“As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.”
“In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.”
“In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.”
“You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.”
“It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.”
“Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.”
Source: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
“It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.”
“There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.”
“Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating”
“You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.”
“As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.”
“If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?”
“Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?”
“One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.”