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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.
Glenn Kelman
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I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job at a start-up. I was one of the first employees there, and I did everything for them, and it was so much fun.
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People can smell a lack of respect from a mile away.
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I do think entrepreneurs need to be smart, but there's another scale I never evaluated myself on that is now the source of my deepest strength: Not how much brains I have, but how much love I have.
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Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.
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People don't think of me as Glenn Kelman; they think of me as the real estate guy. If I wasn't interested in real estate, that would be pretty tragic, wouldn't it?
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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.
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When you start a company, you become really emotionally involved in it.
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Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.
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I learned to value speed in everything I do.
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I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive.
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I learned that people love to be good at things, even the silliest things.
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