Marc Andreessen on Confidence Quotes

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

"Don't follow your passion. Follow your contribution."

"The market doesn't care about your feelings, only your execution."

"You have to have the confidence to ignore the crowd when you know you're on the right track."

"Strong opinions, weakly held."

"Every great breakthrough was once a crazy idea that someone had the confidence to pursue."

"Techno-optimism is a material philosophy, not a political philosophy. We believe that there is no material problem that cannot be solved with more technology."

"Risk is the price you pay for the opportunity to be right."

"You have to be a definitive optimist—you need a plan and the confidence to execute it."

"True confidence is the ability to look at a disaster and see a pivot."

"Be so good they can't ignore you, but be confident enough to know it first."

"The courage to start is the first step toward the confidence to finish."

"The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."

"Growth comes from the confidence to challenge your own assumptions."

"The world belongs to the builders, and building requires conviction."

"The biggest risk is not taking one."

"The best way to gain confidence is to do the thing you are afraid of."

"The most important quality for a founder is insane adaptability fueled by confidence."

"If you're not getting rejected on a regular basis, your goals aren't ambitious enough."

"The future is a choice, and choosing it requires boldness."

"Confidence is the bridge between a vision and a reality."

"Confidence isn't about being right; it's about the willingness to be wrong while moving fast."

"Believe in the power of human ingenuity to overcome any obstacle."

"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."

"If you want to do something big, you have to be comfortable being misunderstood for long periods of time."

"Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement."

"Innovation requires the confidence to fail in public."

"The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit."

"Building something new requires the confidence to stand alone."

"You have to have the confidence to hire people better than you."

"The best way to predict the future is to have the confidence to invent it."

"The most dangerous thing is to stay in your comfort zone."

"Don't wait for permission to be great."