Clara Shih Quotes

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Clara Shih

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : January 11, 1982

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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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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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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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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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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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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Listen more than you talk.

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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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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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Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.

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Social media isn't a one-way broadcast; it's a multiway opportunity for dialogue.

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The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.

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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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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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I don't watch TV or movies or play video games.

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Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

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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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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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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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Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.

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