Aaron Levie Quotes

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• Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

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  Entrepreneur, Tomorrow

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2012

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• Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

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  Winning, Worry, Lasts

  Twitter post from Jun 04, 2013

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• Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

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  Opportunity, People, Needs

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

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  Winning, Bridges, Giants

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

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• Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

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  Trying, Too Late, Late

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

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• You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

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  Talking, Years, Research

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2014

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• Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

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  Done, Way, Assumption

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

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• Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

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  Book, Clouds, Building

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

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  Thinking, Sight, People

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• Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

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  Done, Littles, Too Much

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2014

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• That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

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  Mean, Firsts

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

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• The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

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  Starting Out, Way, Disruption

  Twitter post from May 10, 2013

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• The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

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  Knowing, Guarantees, Chance

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

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  Technology, Looks, Done

  "Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise". Youtube video, Aaron Levie's lecture at a Stanford University, www.youtube.com. October 30, 2014.

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• If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

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  Thinking, Odds, People

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

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• Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

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  Fighting, Entrepreneur, Survival

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012

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• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

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  Pride, Thinking, Organization

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• Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

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  Simple, People, Toys

  "Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise". Youtube video, Aaron Levie's lecture at a Stanford University, www.youtube.com. October 30, 2014.

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• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

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  Faults, Loud, Meetings

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• You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

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  Able, Building, Incumbents

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• We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

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  World, Building, Platforms

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• I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

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  Three, Asking, Brilliant

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• Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

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  Building, Incumbents

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• Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

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  Technology, Building, Disruption

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• If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

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  Interesting, Next, Customers

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014

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