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I just don't like bullies. Especially hypocritical bullies.
I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.
I learned that people love to be good at things, even the silliest things.
I learned that sometimes you should just tell people the ugliest things about you because those are the things that people trust the most.
I learned to value speed in everything I do.
I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive.
I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.
I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he's running late, too. I don't admit that even when it's true. Small, unnoticeable acts of generosity are sometimes the most impressive.
I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it was this incredible mission, but in fact, we sold software to Haliburton; we sold software to Frito-Lay and Pepsi and all these companies that didn't necessarily do good things.
I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be a certain way,' and the entrepreneurial spirit dies. What you got to keep alive is the intimacy, the energy, this crazed sense of purpose.
I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as I am now.
I think of myself as someone who's trying to make things better.
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 infrequent purchase.
I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be that it's not your cup of tea, but every single person at that company knows what the Amazon values are.
I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that.
I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.
I wish I was as annotative as Elon Musk.
I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.
I worry all the time that we're going to screw up a customer's offer.
I'm an identical twin, and I felt that with my twin brother, we sort of formed this unassailable force, and it gave me the confidence to be different. Even if I was a goofball, my twin brother was a goofball with me, so I didn't have to worry about fitting in as much. I was able to march to my own drummer.
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