Sam Altman on Vision Quotes

"You have to be able to explain your vision in a way that makes people want to help you."

"You have to be willing to take risks that others won't to achieve a vision that others can't see."

"You need to have a vision that is large enough to encompass the ambitions of the best people in the world."

"The most successful people I know have a clear vision of what they want to achieve, even if they don't know how yet."

"Scale is the most important thing to understand about the future of AI."

"Focus is a force multiplier on vision."

"Great visions are often simple but have profound implications."

"If you are right about a non-consensus bet, that is where the massive value is created."

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time if you want to do something new."

"The goal is to build AGI that benefits all of humanity."

"A clear vision helps you say no to the many distractions that look like opportunities."

"Iterative deployment is the only way to safely build and align a technology as powerful as AI."

"A vision without execution is just a hallucination, but execution without vision is aimless."

"If you don't have a vision for where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else."

"The most valuable companies are built on a vision of how the world should be different."

"The shift from narrow AI to AGI will be the most significant event in human history."

"Compound growth is the magic of the universe. You want to find things that compound over decades."

"You want to find the thing that you are uniquely positioned to see."

"The best way to get a vision is to learn as much as you can about how the world works."

"A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try."

"The transition to the AI age will require a new vision for how society is organized."

"Most people are focused on the next two years; the real advantage is focusing on the next ten."

"The future belongs to those who have the vision to see it and the courage to build it."

"The best founders have a vision that is grounded in a deep understanding of the technology."

"It is much easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup. People want to be part of something that matters."

"You should be an optimist. It is very hard to be a successful visionary if you are a pessimist."

"You want to be moving toward a future that you are personally excited to live in."

"The rate of progress in the next decade will be faster than anything we've seen before."

"The most important thing for a founder is to have a vision that they are obsessed with."

"We are building a platform that will allow people to create things we can't even imagine yet."

"I think the future is going to be so much better than almost anyone can imagine."

"Energy and intelligence are the two fundamental inputs to the future."

"Great visions require high conviction and the ability to ignore the critics."