Sam Altman Quotes
I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
Quotes to Explore
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.
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I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
