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

Aaron Levie

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 Idea People Thinking Wait Wrong
The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Constant Disruption Out Starting Way
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Bare Build Need Opportunity People Tomorrow
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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Achieve Cliche People Sight Thinking
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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Energy Focus IBM Microsoft Oracle Thinking World
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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Bridge Future Giant Leap Require Winning
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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Business Determined Organize Productive Two
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
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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Change Definition Enterprise Software Use Year
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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Close Enough Out Present Standing Technology
Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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Doe Mean Need People Product Sales
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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Begin Black Coffee Cup Hand Workday
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
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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Change Jobs Latter Sometime Tried Way

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