Company Quote by Sam Altman Download Open image “There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.” — Sam Altman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Company Courses Exception Great idea Ideas
In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
“Companies that pivot—that is, switch business models or products—while on the upswing tend to perform much better than those that stay on a single… — Shane Snow Copy Share Image
Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. — Laura Ashley Copy Share Image
I want a for-profit company counting my vote because they know if they get it wrong, or if they get hacked, their value will… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot,… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way. — Richard Branson 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
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company. — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
If you choose to work at a larger company over a smaller company, you are more likely to be higher paid. — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image