Marc Andreessen Quotes

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• In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Intriguing, Entrepreneurship

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• My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

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  Dramatic, Economic, Economy

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• In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

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  Guy, Trying, Ordinary

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• There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

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  Years, People, Lasts

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• In short, software is eating the world

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  World, Eating, Software

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• Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.

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  Code, Best Things, Can Do

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• The great companies get built by their founders

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  Founders, Great Company, Company

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• The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

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  Differences, People, Vision

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• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

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  Crazy, Character, Technology

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• If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

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  Unhappy, Should, Ifs

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• Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

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  Crazy, Years, Innovation

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• My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

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  Running, Long, Goal

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• People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

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  People, Computer

  "Jobs fight: Haves vs. the have-nots". Interview with Tim Mullaney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.

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• I don't waste time being depressed.

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  Waste, Wasting Time, Being Depressed

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• There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

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  Needs, Software, Constant

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• You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

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  Sleep, Two, Emotion

  "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.

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• The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

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  Running, Talking, People

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• You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

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  Technology

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• Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

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  Ideas, Dots, Succeed

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

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  Innovation, Growth, Bigger

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• Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

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  School, Kids, Technology

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

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  Successful, Technology, Awful

  "Q&A With Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz". Interview with Natalie Wynne Pace, www.forbes.com. February 13, 2004.

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• One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

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  Moving, Advantage, Ifs

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• Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

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  Health, Views, Fundamentals

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• There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

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  Inspirational, Opportunity, Nimble

  "Marc Andreessen: ALL Of The Biggest, Oldest Tech Companies Will Be Forced To Break Up" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. Octobor 16, 2014.

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