Glenn Kelman

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline. ”

You wanna work on something big so that if you win, everybody wins, and you really have an impact on the world. And that can get you out of bed. ”

Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them. ”

Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs. ”

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it. ”

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping. ”

The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea that private capital can handle the early spade work is a joke. ”

One reason I was so convinced that Redfin would work was that I never met anyone who bought or sold a home who thought the process was ideal. ”

Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a good tactic for the Boeings of the world who don't need the kind of rare skills we depend on, who have to grub for profits when we reach for growth. But if Amazon can't afford to keep growing in Seattle, who can? ”

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. ”