It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup. — Sam Altman Decades Copy Share Image
More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision. — Sam Altman Decision Copy Share Image
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around. — Sam Altman Couches Copy Share Image
The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand. — Sam Altman Investing Copy Share Image
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip. — Sam Altman Computers Copy Share Image
The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment. — Sam Altman Alignment Copy Share Image
Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate. — Sam Altman Dies Copy Share Image
Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important. — Sam Altman Big deal Copy Share Image
Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things. — Sam Altman Enough Copy Share Image
... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup… — Sam Altman Being successful Copy Share Image
Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality. — Sam Altman Care Copy Share Image
Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore. — Sam Altman Come up Copy Share Image
You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders. — Sam Altman Ceo Copy Share Image
One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them. — Sam Altman Employee Copy Share Image
You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its… — Sam Altman Asks Copy Share Image
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the… — Sam Altman Crazy Copy Share Image
