The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. - Robin Sharma #InnerWork #SelfMastery #MentalStrength #HighPerformance

...my recommendation is that you also create a private life strong in ethics, rich with marvelous beauty and unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace. - Robin Sharma #InnerWork #SelfMastery #MentalStrength #HighPerformance

Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ. - Robin Sharma #InnerWork #SelfMastery #MentalStrength #HighPerformance

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end. - Robin Sharma #InnerWork #SelfMastery #MentalStrength #HighPerformance

Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. - Robin Sharma #InnerWork #SelfMastery #MentalStrength #HighPerformance

The second part of how to hire: try not to. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #YCombinator #YCstartups #DreamBig #BuildYourTeam

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen #StartNow

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.' - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #ThinkDifferent #MakeItHappen

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #YCombinator #YCstartups #MakeItHappen #PlayToWin

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #YCombinator #YCstartups #BuildYourTeam #BuildDifferent

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen

The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #DoTheWork #MakeItHappen

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus... - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #StaySharp #MakeItHappen

Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen #StartNow

... companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it... - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

You can't be focussed without really great communication - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #StaySharp #MakeItHappen

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #StaySharp #MakeItHappen

Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #DoTheWork #MakeItHappen