Marc Andreessen Quotes

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

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  Business, Intriguing, Entrepreneurship

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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 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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• In short, software is eating the world

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  World, Eating, Software

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

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  Opportunity, People, Pockets

  "Andreessen: There Is No Tech Bubble (And the Smartphone Is Still Under-Hyped)" by Michael V. Copeland, www.wired.com. May 01, 2012.

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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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• China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

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  Europe, Law, Apples

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• If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Able

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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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• A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

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  Want, Done, Internet

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

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  Morning, Real, People

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I don't waste time being depressed.

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  Waste, Wasting Time, Being Depressed

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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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• 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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• Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

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  Nuts, Ideas, Firsts

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