Marc Andreessen Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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

  Marc Andreessen

  Dramatic, Economic, Economy

  56 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Intriguing, Entrepreneurship

  8 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Differences, People, Vision

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Marc Andreessen

  Guy, Trying, Ordinary

  38 Copy quote

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, People, Lasts

  40 Copy quote

• In short, software is eating the world

  Marc Andreessen

  World, Eating, Software

  31 Copy quote

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Years, Innovation

  5 Copy quote

• 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.’

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Character, Technology

  18 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Long, Goal

  22 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Computer

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

  17 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Talking, People

  6 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  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.

  16 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Technology

  16 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Moving, Advantage, Ifs

  8 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Innovation, Growth, Bigger

  20 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, Ideas, Able

  5 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Health, Views, Fundamentals

  19 Copy quote

• Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.

  Marc Andreessen

  Team, Smart, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Europe, Law, Apples

  18 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  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.

  6 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Want, Done, Internet

  18 Copy quote

• Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

  Marc Andreessen

  Ideas, Enough, Should

  9 Copy quote

• We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Employee, Threatened

  7 Copy quote

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Ideas, Dots, Succeed

  13 Copy quote

• People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, People, Information

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

Page 1 of 5

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin