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Need to make better decisions about Business? Marc Andreessen's quotes serve as decision-making shortcuts, distilling complex thinking into clear principles. This collection is organized for quick reference, with full source context for every entry. Whether you're facing immediate choices or building long-term strategy around Business, these insights give you the clarity ambitious professionals demand.
"The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit."
"The team is what you have to work with, but the market is what you're working for."
"Don't follow your passion. Your passion is likely to be something you’re not good at."
"Technology is the glory of human ambition and meaning, the spearhead of progress."
"Great founders are often the ones who are the most obsessed."
"Everything is a choice."
"The best way to get through a crisis is to build your way out."
"The best entrepreneurs are the ones who are the most persistent."
"The speed of the leader is the speed of the team."
"You can always feel when product-market fit isn't happening."
"The goal of a startup is to become a real business."
"Market matters most."
"We believe that there are no material limits to our growth."
"Disruption is a feature, not a bug, of the free market."
"If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes."
"If you can't find a market, you don't have a business, no matter how good your product is."
"Execution is everything."
"Cycles are a natural part of the economy and technology."
"The most important thing you can do is find a large market."
"In a great market—a market with lots of real potential customers—the market pulls product out of the startup."
"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 often step out of the way."
"Product-market fit is the only thing that matters for a new venture."
"The world is always ending, and yet we keep building."
"We are currently in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk."
"Markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are."
"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future."
"Raising prices is a great way to find out if you have a business."
"Software is eating the world."
"The quality of a startup's product is secondary to the market it enters."
"A startup is a team of people, a product, and a market."
"Most people are not used to an environment where they have to excel."
"The cost of failure is much lower than the cost of not trying."
"Innovation is the only way we have to solve our problems."
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