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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Entire
Business
Two
Things
Organize
Productive
Personally
Separate
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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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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.
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