Sam Altman Good Quotations

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.