Aaron Levie Quotes

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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… Able
• When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug. Becomes
• Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work Billion
• Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be. Execute
• Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong. Bezos
• Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance. Always Either
• 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… Always Asking
• If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong. Inspirational
• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape… Alike
• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast. Fast
• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven. Annoying
• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep. Biologically
• 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. Begins
• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to… Access
• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get… Bigger
• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology… Adversity
• I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's… Bad
• 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… Creation
• If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of… Bunch
• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents,… Area

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