Sam Altman: What Successful People Say

Back in 2019, Sam Altman – the main man behind ChatGPT and OpenAI, which could be worth as much as $90 billion – published an article called How To Be Successful.

In there, he shares and expands on 13 thoughts…

1. Compound yourself
2. Have almost too much self-belief
3. Learn to think independently
4. Get good at “sales”
5. Make it easy to take risks
6. Focus
7. Work hard
8. Be bold
9. Be willful
10. Be hard to compete with
11. Build a network
12. You get rich by owning things
13. Be internally driven

He writes about #9…

Almost always, the people who say “I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out”, and mean it, go on to succeed. 

They are persistent long enough to give themselves a chance for luck to go their way.

And…

To be willful, you have to be optimistic—hopefully this is a personality trait that can be improved with practice. I have never met a very successful pessimistic person.

Btw, Sam Altman jumped on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week.

Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or check out this 15m clip…

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