The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world. — Glenn Kelman Cultures Copy Share Image
Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who… — Glenn Kelman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien. — Glenn Kelman Alien Copy Share Image
From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them. — Glenn Kelman Beautiful Copy Share Image
Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs. — Glenn Kelman Costs Copy Share Image
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
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 learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive. — Glenn Kelman Environment 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
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
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 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
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
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
I am not excited about Bitcoin. I think it's an outrage that, in an era of global warming, there are racks of… — Glenn Kelman Bitcoin 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
Control of the browser that people use to access the Web turned out to be far less meaningful than the search engine… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I always keep in mind is… — Glenn Kelman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about… — Glenn Kelman Being Copy Share Image
Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The… — Glenn Kelman Corporate world 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
Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to… — Glenn Kelman Attention Copy Share Image
I worry all the time that we're going to screw up a customer's offer. — Glenn Kelman Customer Copy Share Image
If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens. — Glenn Kelman Being Copy Share Image
