Sam Altman

• The best ideas are fragile; most people don’t even start talking about them at all because they sound silly. Sam Altman

• A good test for an idea is if you can articulate why most people think it’s a bad idea, but you understand what makes it good. Sam Altman

• The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one. Sam Altman

• The best case, by far, is to have a good cofounder. The next best is to be a solo founder. The worse case, by far, is to have a bad cofounder. Sam Altman

• Resist the urge to derive your self-worth from your number of employees. Sam Altman

• It’s much better to first make a product a small number of users love than a product that a large number of users like. Sam Altman

• Would your users be truly bummed if your company went away? Sam Altman

• As a general rule, don’t let your company start doing the next thing until you’ve dominated the first thing. Sam Altman