The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world. — Glenn Kelman Cultures 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
People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win. — 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
I learned that people love to be good at things, even the silliest things. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing. — Glenn Kelman Government 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
Folks are leaving Silicon Valley, mostly because they can't afford to stay. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet.… — Glenn Kelman Government Copy Share Image
The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as… — Glenn Kelman Evil Copy Share Image
I learned that sometimes you should just tell people the ugliest things about you because those are the things that people trust… — Glenn Kelman People Copy Share Image
I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already… — Glenn Kelman Decisions Copy Share Image
Even though I am sympathetic to newspapers, I am not entirely convinced by the newspapers' claim that Google News violates fair use… — Glenn Kelman Fair Copy Share Image
You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be… — Glenn Kelman 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
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
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
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
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
Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
In 2006, I appeared before a House subcommittee considering real estate reform. It was like visiting the capital for the 'Hunger Games'… — Glenn Kelman Beautiful Copy Share Image
The one thing that Redfin has been really good at has been at delighting people. — Glenn Kelman 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
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
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
