Sam Altman Quotes

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

So it takes years to make a solid company.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.

It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

I love having real conversations with entrepreneurs who have built their companies from the ground up, with nothing but their own drive, passion, and courage, and I'm constantly learning new things as I hear each one's unique journey.

I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.

Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.