Aaron Levie Quotes - Page 2

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• When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

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  Stress, Passionate, Bugs

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• Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

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  Moving, Software, Industry

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

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• Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

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  Mean, Doe, Needs

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• In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

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  Want, Building, Enterprise

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• Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

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  People, Innovation, Needs

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• If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

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  Encouragement, Thinking, Ideas

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2013

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• A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

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  Two, Determined, Organize

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• You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

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  Crazy, Ecosystems, Want

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• I think because of the iPhone and the fact that we now have a ubiquitous internet, our creativity in the startup space is 10 times different. Every single industry, every single market, is going to be technology-driven in some way. There's an infinite opportunity for startups because now you can go and solve problems that previously looked like they had nothing to do with technology.

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  Creativity, Technology, Opportunity

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• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Kind

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• The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

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  Stress, Done, Causes

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2013

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• What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

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  Thinking, Focus, Energy

  "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions With Box Ceo Aaron Levie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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• You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.

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  Looks, Cost, Fundamentals

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• My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

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  Coffee, Hands, Black

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• Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

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  Long, Focus, Today

  Twitter post from May 01, 2013

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

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  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

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  Technology, Significant Change, Raw Materials

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• Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

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  Innovation, Stubborn, Favors

  Twitter post from May 25, 2014

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• Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

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  Player, Entrepreneur, Cheerleader

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2013

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• Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.

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  Mind, Building, Lost

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• Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

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  Years, Use, Definitions

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• If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.

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  Distance, People, Levels

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• Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

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  Keys, Building, Distinction

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• My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

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  Mom, Snacks, Would Be

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• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

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  Sleep, Unfortunate

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