Clara Shih Quotes
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There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.
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Many companies talk about customer success, but how many actually put the customer first above all else, always?
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I believe that rather than it being a case of humans versus machines, the future of financial advice more likely lies somewhere in between, where human advisors leverage artificial intelligence and automation to become smarter and more efficient at doing their jobs.
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Companies can't delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.
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With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.
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Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.
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Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.
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Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
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My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.
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My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.
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Listen more than you talk.
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When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
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The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
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Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.
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Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform.
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As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.
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Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.
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'The Facebook Era' articulated a radical vision for how social media would transform media, relationships, and influence, creating new opportunities for businesses in the process.
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The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.
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My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.
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I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.
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Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
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The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.