Aaron Levie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.”
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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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“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”
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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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“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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“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”
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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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“Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.”
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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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“Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.”
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“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.”
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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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“When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.”
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“Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work”
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“The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.”
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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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“Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.”
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“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”
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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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“We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.”
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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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“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”
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“The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.”
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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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“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”
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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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“Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.”
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“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”
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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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