Sam Altman Quotes

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

Companies and football teams have become successful precisely because of how diverse they are.

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.

Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team.

As a team, the most important thing is results.

If I have my best year yet in 2018 but we're 8-8, I didn't go to the next level. That's the reality of it.

In every sector of business, it's really hard to build something where you can get on a good run. In sports, it's even harder because you only have a small window for an athletic career.

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.

Done is the engine of more.

Honestly, I think winning changes all of that. It doesn't matter where you are - it could be Timbuktu - if you win, people will watch, they'll follow and they'll support. It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players. Look at the teams that have been successful in the NBA. Yes, you have big, glamorous cities like L.A. But Miami has won, and so has San Antonio. Oklahoma City is a very successful team. They're not the biggest markets.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

Our sport is ruled whether it's for good and bad, or whatever, for technical things. There's lots of teams out there that could and should have done better if they'd have had technical things. I suppose in the end that basically revolves around how much money they're gonna get.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.