Sam Altman Quotes

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

Change before you're forced to change.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Don't get stuck on a business plan just because it was your business plan.

If you see that something is not working, you have to be willing to change course.

Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.