As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive. — Glenn Kelman Environment Copy Share Image
My advice for men who aren't yet parents is to make sure you're a happy person before having a baby. — Glenn Kelman Advice Copy Share Image
I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world. — Glenn Kelman Differences Copy Share Image
I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Folks are leaving Silicon Valley, mostly because they can't afford to stay. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The one thing that Redfin has been really good at has been at delighting people. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly. — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting… — Glenn Kelman Acting Copy Share Image
If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like,… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists,… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public… — Glenn Kelman Alone Copy Share Image
What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all… — Glenn Kelman Country Copy Share Image
If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the… — Glenn Kelman Books Copy Share Image
I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be… — Glenn Kelman Alive Copy Share Image
Everybody has been told already that they're too shy, too aggressive, too emotional, too reserved. They know what their fatal flaw is.… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And… — Glenn Kelman Bicycle Copy Share Image
I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
Funny money has always been the reason housing prices have risen too fast. First, it was liar loans and negative-amortizing mortgages, where… — Glenn Kelman Crisis Copy Share Image
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to… — Glenn Kelman Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm an identical twin, and I felt that with my twin brother, we sort of formed this unassailable force, and it gave… — Glenn Kelman Brother Copy Share Image
Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing. — Glenn Kelman Government Copy Share Image
People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
We don't need to take the world by storm. We just need to make our customers happy, and when we do that,… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I learned that people love to be good at things, even the silliest things. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want… — Glenn Kelman Change Copy Share Image
We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The tech industry's love for scrappy, accessible founders adds to the pressure. You're expected to lead by example, to roll up your… — Glenn Kelman Customer Copy Share Image
So many tech companies have embraced a mission that they say is larger than profits. Once you wrap yourself up in a… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether… — Glenn Kelman Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I… — Glenn Kelman Brother Copy Share Image
I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very… — Glenn Kelman Consumers Copy Share Image
It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
When we talk about a city's cost of living, we don't mean food, transportation, or clothing, which cost about the same everywhere.… — Glenn Kelman City Copy Share Image
