Quote

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

Aaron Levie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Good
Encouragement
Time
Late
Think
Probably
Thinking
Waiting
People
Wrong
Idea
Others
Ideas

More quotes by Aaron Levie

Image
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
Aaron Levie
Image
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
Aaron Levie
Image
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
Aaron Levie
Image
You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
Aaron Levie
Image
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
Aaron Levie
Image
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
Aaron Levie
Image
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
Aaron Levie
Image
They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
Aaron Levie
Image
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
Aaron Levie
Image
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
Aaron Levie
Image
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 is what drives me.
Aaron Levie
Image
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
Aaron Levie
Image
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
Aaron Levie
Image
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
Aaron Levie
Image
All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
Aaron Levie
Image
Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
Aaron Levie
Image
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie