Marc Andreessen on Ambition Quotes

"Smart people should build things."

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast."

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

"True passion in entrepreneurship looks like obsession. It's the inability to think about anything else."

"We need to return to a culture where dreaming big is encouraged and building fast is the norm."

"A great founder is someone who can't stop thinking about their dream until it exists in the physical world."

"The world is full of opportunities for those who are willing to look."

"Winning requires a level of obsession that most people find unhealthy."

"If you are not working on the most important problem in your field, why are you working at all?"

"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you."

"Winning is about capturing the future."

"Technology is the glory of human ambition and meaning, the spearhead of progress."

"Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential."

"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go after it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will yield to you."

"Optimize for the long term by being extremely disciplined with your short-term time."

"The world is always ending, and yet we keep building."

"If you want to be motivated, surround yourself with people who are doing things that scare you."

"The world needs more builders."

"You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one who does what you do."

"We believe that there is no such thing as 'enough' growth, because growth is the engine of human progress."

"The most successful founders have a 'burning' need to solve a specific problem, which is a much more durable form of passion."

"Taking a risk means accepting that you might lose everything to gain something significantly better."

"The standard advice is 'follow your passion.' This is terrible advice. You should follow your contribution."

"You need a certain amount of arrogance to believe you can change an entire industry."

"There is no speed limit."

"The passion for creating something new is the primary driver of the American economy."

"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often even give way."

"Passion is the difference between a job and a calling."

"If you are not dreaming big enough to be scared, you are probably not dreaming big enough to change the world."