Adam Neumann Quotes
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I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.
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I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.
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The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.
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Let's not look at working hard as a negative; let's look at it as an uplifting opportunity for us to be better.
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Finishing what you started is important.
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The most precious resource we have is time.
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My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.
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I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.
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Technology has made it possible to order food, buy clothes, get a ride - anything you can think of, really - at the touch of a button. But what about having the right people near you when you need them?
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Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.
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Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more 'we' than 'me.' People start coming together. They'll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There's a thousand other things they do.
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When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.
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Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees.
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It's one thing to change regulations on the city level, another on the state, and still another on the federal. The higher the levels are, the more difficult change gets.
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I'm dyslexic.
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As far as WeWork is concerned, we're not competing with co-working spaces; we're not competing with office suites. We're competing with work. We think there's a new way of working in the world, and it's just better. For the millenials and everybody that understands collaboration and the sharing economy, that's just the right way for them.
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The good thing about India is that they believe something great about themselves.
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A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.
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I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.
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It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.