Sam Altman Quotes

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurialism is supposed to be fun!

Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won’t feel like work. It’s okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.