Sam Altman Quotes

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Sir, I did not create a monopoly. Nor did I cheat anyone. I simply had the foresight to bid low and take a loss the first couple of years, with a long view in mind. The only thing I am guilty of is running a successful company.

If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left.

I think long-term, not short-term.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.