Sam Altman Quotes

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

In general, what we want to do is to elevate Volvo's brand positioning, and we feel the main lever to achieve that is to develop more higher-tier products.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

Good products win out.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

Our competitors outside Europe are manufacturing goods cheaper and better. Through innovation, other countries are producing new products which we do not make yet, but which we could.

New things get noticed. This means you can't be afraid to present something new to your market, even if it's just a variation or an addition to an already-existing product or service.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.

Great products sell themselves.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.