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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.

Aaron Levie

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
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 Little Much Person Process
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
That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Attempt First Mean Tried Wrong
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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Answer Ask Centric Customer Decide Organization
Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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Building Incumbent Infeasible Technical Thing
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
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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Cause Done Percentage Stress Time
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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Come Easier Last Startup Winning Worry
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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Asking Brilliant Fast Obsessed Three
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
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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Done Enable Look Technology
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate
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
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

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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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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