A Quote by Sam Altman

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
American - Businessman

In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

Patrick Collison

When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.

Sam Altman

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

Naval Ravikant

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

Sam Altman

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

Lauren Bush

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Jessica Livingston

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is really important for early founders, but I also think that exposure to the Bay Area is extremely valuable for startups.

Michael Seibel

There are always a lot of guys that have potential, but to make it a certain amount of years in the league, it takes more than just potential. You have to be professional, you have to be a good teammate, do things the right way. So now, any chance I get to talk to younger guys, I do it.

Al Horford

People who reach certain levels of frailty, more important than getting their mammogram, more important than getting their blood pressure tweaked, they're at high risk of falling. If they fall and break their hip, they not only die sooner, they die miserably.

Atul Gawande

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than what you can do.

Richard Bonynge

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Arne Duncan

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.