Sam Altman Quotes

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

Anytime is a good time to start a company.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

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.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.

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.

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

A successful business is created before there is a business.

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

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.