Sam Altman Running Quotations

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.