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The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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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 the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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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 enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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