Sam Altman Quotes

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

The greatest companies in the world were started and are run by fanatics.

The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them.

I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity.

I think motivation and drive, coupled with raw talent, help make founders successful.

Business is my passion.

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

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

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

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.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.