Sam Altman Quotes

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game.

We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.