Customer Quote by Sam Altman Download Open image “The idea should come first, the startup should come second.” — Sam Altman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Come Second Come Startup Customer Entrepreneurship Firsts Idea Come Ideas Should Startup Startup Come
Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms. — Gil Penchina Copy Share Image
I like the idea that I can make a big difference to a startup in a short period of time. — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation. — Balaji Srinivasan 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 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 Copy Share Image
You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up. — Sam Altman 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 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 one. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
I believe confusion is good. Worldwide market leaders gain when there is confusion in the market. — Subhash Chandra Copy Share Image
