Sam Altman Quotes

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

This is a business that is much easier planned than executed.

You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Ideas are not important in China – execution is