“A lot of the best ideas seem silly or bad initially—you want an idea at the intersection of “seems like bad idea” and “is good idea”.”
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“All startups are f----d in at least one major way. Keep going.”
Sam Altman
“Keep a to-do list every day. At the top of it, put the one or two big things you want to work on.”
Sam Altman
“You have to have great execution—far more people have good ideas than are willing to roll up their sleeves and get s--t done.”
Sam Altman
“Simple is good. Be suspicious of complexity.”
Sam Altman
“Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.”
Sam Altman
“Stay focused and don’t try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.”
Sam Altman
“You have to have an almost crazy level of dedication to your company to succeed.”
Sam Altman
“Overcommunicate with your team. For some reason most founders are really bad at this one. Transparency is your friend.”
Sam Altman
“Obsess about the quality of the product.”
Sam Altman
“Write code, talk to users, and build the company.”
Sam Altman
“The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.”
Peter Thiel
“the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.”
Peter Thiel
“You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.”
Peter Thiel
“Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.”
Peter Thiel
“All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
Peter Thiel
“Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.”
Peter Thiel
“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
Peter Thiel
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Peter Thiel
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
Elon Musk
“I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.”
Steve Jobs
“The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.”
Steve Jobs
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Bill Gates
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
Bill Gates