Andrew Yan Quotes
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After a couple of years in a professional setting, you'll get used to dressing presentably, preparing for meetings, speaking appropriately, showing up on time, writing professional correspondence, etc.
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If we create enough new companies, there will be additional opportunities for people at every rung of the educational ladder.
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Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.
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If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.
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People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
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In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.
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If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.
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For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.
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In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.
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Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.
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All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.
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All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society.
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Technology can create needs even as it addresses them.
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If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.
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We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.
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The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.
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Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.
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I wear a suit most days, in part because it's suitable for any type of meeting and in part because it takes the thought out of it.
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When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.
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There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality - one that doesn't rely upon government. It's to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.
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In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
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Organizations relying upon young, idealistic, and mission-driven people to work at below-market compensation over the long-term will burn them out and find the best people leaving over time.
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I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
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I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night.