I worry all the time that we're going to screw up a customer's offer. — Glenn Kelman Customer 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
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
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
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
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
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
I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job… — Glenn Kelman Choice Copy Share Image
You wanna work on something big so that if you win, everybody wins, and you really have an impact on the world.… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
One reason I was so convinced that Redfin would work was that I never met anyone who bought or sold a home… — Glenn Kelman Home Copy Share Image
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with… — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more… — Glenn Kelman Around the world Copy Share Image
I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he's running late, too.… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your… — Glenn Kelman Business 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When you start a company, you become really emotionally involved in it. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster. — Glenn Kelman Business Copy Share Image
Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities. — Glenn Kelman Creativity 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
