Sam Altman Quotes

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

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• God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Action

• I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Today
  • Political
  • Serious

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Men
  • Friends

• I love Channing Tatum!

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love

• Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Family
  • American

• Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Day
  • Better

• Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • Anything
  • Little

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Age

• To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

  

  James Dean
  • People
  • Great

• It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Country
  • Mistake

• There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I love someone with something to prove.

  

  Emily Weiss

• The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
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