Sam Altman Quotes

If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

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• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Man
  • Know
  • Relationship

• Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • World
  • Support
  • Myself

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Moral

• My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • People
  • Understand
  • Crisis

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Forever
  • Economists

• I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Forever

• Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

  

  Iman
  • Way
  • New
  • New York

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

  

  Jerry West
  • Great
  • Why
  • Team

• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Words
  • Lyrics

• I'm not a nasty person.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Nasty

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing