Marc Andreessen on Confidence Quotes

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

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

"Software is eating the world because it allows for the digitization and rapid iteration of human interaction."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Innovation requires the confidence to fail in public."

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

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

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

"Strong opinions, weakly held."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation."

"Our civilization was built on technology."

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

"Software is eating the world. That is the fundamental motivation for everything we do in the modern economy."

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

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

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

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

"The biggest risk is not taking one."

"A startup is a leap of faith backed by rigorous conviction."

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

"If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts."

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