Sam Altman Quotes

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

No matter what your company does - build, manage, produce, import - as an owner, you can't avoid the hard work and skip straight to success. No class can give you that, no YouTube video can teach it, and no book can mark it off your list.

Don't take shortcuts while building your company - keep trying for the best.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

I built my business, and WWE brought my business in. I want to be successful in my business and, in turn, make WWE successful.

To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.

I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.

I always had a deep respect for people who started businesses, but now I cherish them. There's a lot of anxiety and blood, sweat, and tears that goes into this, and I love it.

I have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.