Sam Altman Quotes

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

We just want to have great people working for us.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

There's a dance happening on both sides of the table. Individuals are giving their personal and career values a lot more weight when it comes to finding a company that aligns with both. At the same time, companies are becoming a lot more transparent about their core values as an organization and the types of people they want to attract.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

In our first decade, I interviewed about five thousand people in pursuit of the talent that would create our future. As our success grew, we became known across the four corners of finance not just for our outstanding returns, but also for our outstanding people.

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

I'm proud that I've been able to attract an incredible team to work with me.

If I had stayed at City I think I would have been someone who simply filled in when I was required. I'd rather go elsewhere and play regularly. Be a bigger part of a smaller team.

I have chosen this job. If I didn't like it, I would have chosen something else. I can't go out and say that 'I don't like it.'

Take any job in a growing, exciting company. You'll learn so much.

I just wanted to go to the right team, a team that was going to allow me to learn and come in and just be me.

I truly believe Accenture is a magnet for top talent in the new, not only because of the work we do for clients but because our culture supports employees who want to make a difference in the community where we live and work.

When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching, which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.

If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.