Marc Andreessen on Work Quotes

"The best way to get a job is to already have a job."

"The best founders are the ones who are the most obsessed with the problem they are solving."

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

"If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to work harder than everyone else."

"In a great market—a market with lots of real potential customers—the market pulls product out of the startup."

"The most successful people I know are the ones who are constantly learning."

"The best teams are the ones that are aligned on the mission."

"You can only build something great if you are willing to be misunderstood for a long period of time."

"Success is a function of persistence."

"The most important decision you will ever make is what you work on."

"Execution is everything."

"The key to productivity is to have a very short to-do list and a very long 'done' list."

"Great things are never easy."

"Focus on the things that only you can do."

"The most important skill in the 21st century is the ability to learn how to learn."

"Focus on the work, not the credit."

"Technology is the lever that allows us to do more with less."

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

"Every time you say 'yes' to something, you are saying 'no' to something else."

"The world needs more builders."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"If you're not failing, you're not pushing hard enough."

"Don’t ever take a job where you’re not learning something new."

"The goal is not to be busy. The goal is to be productive."

"The most important thing is to be doing something."

"You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed."

"Markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are."

"Productivity is about output, not input."

"Be the person who gets things done."

"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 yield to you."

"Software is eating the world."

"Don't wait for permission to build something great."