Quotes from Keith Rabois

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.