Aaron Levie Quotes

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Fast Fault Loud Meeting Talk
Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.
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Building Customer Future Lost Mind Working
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
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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Focus Long Term Today Tomorrow
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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Build Company Concept Enamore Goal Great Sometimes
Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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Entrepreneur Execute Like Strategize Tomorrow
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
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
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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Favor Innovation Problem Stubborn Tech
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Amazing Industry Moving Slow Software Stodgiest
I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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Certain Creation Involve People Prestige Simply
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
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
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
If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Correct Customer Interest Interesting Next
The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Barrie Consistently Create Entry Great Product
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
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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Annoy Driven Kind Thinking Would
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
I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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App Many Nap Use
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Catch Early Late Too Try Trying
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
Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Crisis Existential Great Perfectly Startup
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

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