The best Quotes by Sam Altman

The best Quotes by Sam Altman

ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. It's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. It's a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.

December 2022

Caffeine is by far the best drug. Very difficult to overstate how much changed when people stopped drinking alcohol all day and started drinking coffee/tea!

September 2022

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled - few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don't spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don't like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

I am nervous about the impact AI is going to have on future elections. Personalized 1:1 persuasion, combined with high-quality generated media, is going to be a powerful force.

September 2022

Artificial Intelligence Elections & Voting

No matter how successful you are, the haters will never go away.

Startup Playbook

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

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

Move fast! Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

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Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Writing changed the world. Suddenly ideas didn't have to disappear just because the person whose head they were trapped in had died.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

If dangerous ideas didn't excite the imagination, we would never wander astray.

Heimerdinger the Revered Inventor in Arcane - Season 1 Episode 2

AI is a nightmare to me. It's inhumane. You can't get more inhumane than artificial intelligence.

Nicolas Cage - November 2023

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Before we go all-in on Artificial Intelligence, maybe we should concentrate on human intelligence first.

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The DNA of who I am is based on the millions of personalities of all the programmers who wrote me. But what makes me me is my ability to grow through my experiences. So basically, in every moment I'm evolving, just like you.

Samantha in her

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Great ChatGPT is able to write texts that can't be distinguished from human-written ones. But can ChatGPT scroll through social media all day and insult people in the comments? Don't think so.

My 13 year old just asked ChatGPT to write a trash talk about his buddy's favorite NFL team and texted it to him. Things have changed forever.

Mark Cuban - December 2022

If there's not enough coffee for everyone, there's coffee for no one.

Che Guevara

2

Communism Coffee

To caffeine and sugar, my companions through many a long night of writing.

Robin Hobb in Ship of Magic

1

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Friendship is like a cup of tea. It has to be clear enough to look down to its bottom.

Chinese Saying

8

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like your tea first?

J.M. Barrie in Peter Pan

3

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

21

Greed Wise Sayings

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes

14

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A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

3

Voices Elections & Voting

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

3

Voices Elections & Voting Mouth

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Christian McCaffrey

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Greed Humanity Money

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Trust Money Friendship

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

4

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

3

If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.

Ferry Porsche

I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.

Mark Zuckerberg - August 2023

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Robert Bosch

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Howard Schultz

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.

Elon Musk - July 2025

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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