A Quote by Sam Altman

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea?-?not a pivot.

Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

Tom Douglas

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Eric Lefkofsky

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

Steve Jobs

Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.

Saul Alinsky

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Stephen Collins

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Eric Ries

Many, indeed most, inhabitants of the Third World, don't necessarily share our ideas and beliefs; others pay lip service, but don't really comprehend them. There are exceptions of course, but most people are not exceptional.

Amy Wax

In many cases, companies use the crisis moments to pivot to do better. We like to be part of that.

Richard Edelman

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Douglas Leone

What I do see is Cuban people that are just - want to see change. They are vibrant. They are trying to fix up old cars, so they can start their tourism businesses. There's hundreds of thousands of small companies that have already started under some exceptions that Raul Castro has put into place.

Amy Klobuchar

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Luigi Pirandello

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

Ryan Holiday

Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.

Andrew Yang

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.'

Jay Leno

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

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