Sam Altman Quotes

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

When people come together, they become much more productive.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

You can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.