Sam Altman Quotes

Fixing mistakes is one thing. Apple's bigger strength has been its ability to keep improving hit products.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

In our product development cycle, we ask and listen to our customer about what she wants.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.

I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I look at that and say, "Hey, that's an exciting thing to get behind!" Because they can improve that product. That leaves more upside from an innovation and revenue potential than you're gonna find in a lot of places. So you could say that's a downside, I see that as an opportunity.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.

When it comes to creating a product or running a company, you need to prioritize the goal of the company or the creation of the product over and above every personal interaction you have.

In the end, we don't believe in launching any type of product if it isn't perfect in our eyes.

You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

Oh, the secret of a great club is all in the detail. When I walk into one of my bars, I have to have all my napkins a certain way and all the pourers in the bottles facing a certain way. It drives some people crazy, but I figure if I notice something's off, then other people will notice it, too.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.