Sam Altman Quotes

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• No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

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  Smart, People, Matter

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• Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Important, Execution

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• As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

  Sam Altman

  Long, Beats, Bigger

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• Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

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  Missing, World, Being The Best

  "36 important life and work lessons a top tech executive learned before turning 30" by Sam Altman, www.businessinsider.com. April 30, 2015.

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• You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

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  Care, Want, Wrong Things

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• When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.

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  Way, Easy, Easier

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• Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

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  Remember, Crushed, Competitors

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• When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

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  Failing, Structure, Fine

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• At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

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  Team, Phrases, Resourceful

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• To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

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  Team, Years, People

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• Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

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  Way, Missions, Company

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• Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

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  Keys, Two, Done

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• One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

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  Way, Grows, Products

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2014

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• In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

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  Needs, Building Something, Building

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• Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

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  Talking, Decision, Never Quit

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• Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

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  Ideas, Important, Needs

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• You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

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  Two, Innovation, Three

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• At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

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  Team, Needs, Desperate

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• If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

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  Complicated, Sentences, Ifs

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• More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

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  Important, Starting, Founders

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• Obsess about the quality of the product.

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  Quality, Products

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• A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

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  Team, People, Treats

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• I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

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  Team, Believe, Fighting

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

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  Average, People

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• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

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  Team, Ideas, Long

  "There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 04, 2013.

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