You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years. — Sam Altman Knows Copy Share Image
One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better. — Sam Altman Best way Copy Share Image
A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing. — Sam Altman Feel good Copy Share Image
You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time. — Sam Altman Block Copy Share Image
The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done. — Sam Altman Divided Copy Share Image
I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing… — Sam Altman Bigs Copy Share Image
Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality. — Sam Altman Balance Copy Share Image
One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm. — Sam Altman Advantage Copy Share Image
One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused… — Sam Altman Communication Copy Share Image
Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity. — Sam Altman Bigs Copy Share Image
There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters. — Sam Altman Belief Copy Share Image
You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this… — Sam Altman Believe Copy Share Image
Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go. — Sam Altman Ambition Copy Share Image
One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just… — Sam Altman Advice Copy Share Image
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best… — Sam Altman Best company Copy Share Image
It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus. — Sam Altman Breakdown Copy Share Image
Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
