Sam Altman Quotes

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• No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

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  Smart, People, Matter

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• Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

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  Ideas, Important, Execution

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• Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

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  Missing, World, Being The Best

  "36 important life and work lessons a top tech executive learned before turning 30" by Sam Altman, www.businessinsider.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

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  Exercise, Missing, Today

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• Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

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• You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

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  Two, Innovation, Three

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• It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

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  Average, People

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• There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

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  Smart, Team, People

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• You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

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  Care, Want, Wrong Things

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• In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

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  Needs, Building Something, Building

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• Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

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  Firsts, Scared, Starting

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• One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

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  Team, Forget, Employee

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• Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

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  Keys, Two, Done

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• Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

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  Successful, People, Enthusiasm

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• One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

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  Trying, Credit, Starting

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• Obsess about the quality of the product.

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  Quality, Products

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• If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

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  Team, Real, Work Out

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

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  Team, Solo, Founders

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• If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

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  Complicated, Sentences, Ifs

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• The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

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  Team, People, Should

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• Most things are not as risky as they seem.

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  Seems

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• Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

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  Organization, Salary, Lows

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• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

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  Team, Ideas, Long

  "There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 04, 2013.

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• If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

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  Needs, Building Something, Realizing

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

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  Giving, Should, Employee

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