Aim Quote by Sam Altman

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

— Sam Altman

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

— Sam Altman

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay…

— Ben Horowitz

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

— Sam Altman

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

— Tom Golisano

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a…

— Sam Altman

“In 1980, the average CEO made forty-two times what an average hourly worker took home. By 2005, the ratio was 262 to 1.”

— Barack Obama

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

— Michael K. Simpson

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be…

— Andrew Carnegie

If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I've had in this business has been luck, and…

— Greg Berlanti

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

— Steve Jobs