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“Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.”

Thinking Team Generous Employee Investors Founders Backwards Equity Stingy

Author:Sam Altman

“Employees will only add more value over time.”

Values Team Add Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.”

Writing Sometimes Team Promise Checks Despite Investors

Author:Sam Altman

“I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.”

Believe Fighting I Believe Team Amount I Believe In Generous Employee Investors Equity

Author:Sam Altman

“One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.”

Forget One Thing Team Employee Founders

Author:Sam Altman

“You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.”

Happens Stuff Responsibility Team Credit Taking Responsibility Bad Stuff

Author:Sam Altman

“I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.”

Thinking Firsts Can Do Team First Time Managers Best Things Founders

Author:Sam Altman

“Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.”

People Thinking Running My Own Company Team Worst Firing

Author:Sam Altman

“Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.”

Firsts Long Turns Waiting Answers Fire Team First Time Employee Founders Right Answers

Author:Sam Altman

“... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.”

Company Fire Team Employee Working It

Author:Sam Altman

“You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.”

People Want Fire Team Office Negative

Author:Sam Altman

“If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.”

Ifs Needs Decision Team

Author:Sam Altman

“You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.”

Decision Team Makers Decision Makers

Author:Sam Altman

“People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.”

People Company Roles Team Goes On Smart New Things Really Smart Time Goes On

Author:Sam Altman

“We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.”

Hard Company Team Fund Founders Equity

Author:Sam Altman

“So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.”

People Jobs Team Simplify

Author:Keith Rabois

“Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.”

Important Team Important Things Edits

Author:Keith Rabois

“I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.”

Talking Team Reasoning

Author:Reid Hoffman

“I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.”

Trying Firsts Important Done Lasts Values Waiting Team Minutes Tasks My Time Smarter Urgent Hiring Great Team Last Minute

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.”

Want Deals Team Taxes Luxury

Author:Jason Terry

“Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.”

Self Play Earth Team Findings Response Protection Rapids Peril Immune Immune System Grassroots Self Protection

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.”

Important Records Focus Team Cost Important Things

Author:Garfield Sobers

“I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.”

People Said Whole Running Wanted Opportunity Team Inspire Coaches Quitting Tracy

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.”

World Running Age Girl Records Groups Team Miles Twelve

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.”

People Helping Running Values Hurt Attitude Roles Teach Team Activity All Things Humble Role Models Modeling Be Humble Instill Appreciative Physical Activity

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“In almost any change there is 20 - 60 - 20. 20% are doing the change and we need to stay out of their way. 20% will never get there (a large percent still go into banks to see tellers vs. ATMs). 60% are in the middle. I think you will always find some companies where the head of HR is not a member of senior management team (bottom 20% and some companies where she or he has always been (top 20%).”

Thinking Way Needs Stills Company Team Middle Members Percent Management Bottom Senior Atm Senior Management

Author:Dave Ulrich

“Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.”

People World Trying Long Sound Support Team Periods Scrutiny Assignments Long Periods Of Time

Author:Ben Burtt

“I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.”

Giving Two Next Team Shots Two Things Never Expect

Author:Beth Daniel

“Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.”

Doe Done Rooms Team Captains

Author:Beth Daniel

“I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Matter Helping Situation Team Pressure Nickels

Author:Darius Philon

“What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.”

Thinking Together Political Politics Individual Term Team Dangerous Members Mentality Mindless Partisanship Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"”

Knows Want Giving Kind Funny Saws Comedy Team Advice College Son Strategy Coaches I Want You Championship Trust Me Pins Just Do It Bowling

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.”

Ifs Feels Years Ends Bigs Motivational Player Team Members Performances Clubs Performing Boards Cricket Exclusive Being There

Author:Sunil Gavaskar

“I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.”

Way Trying I Can Sometimes Helping Stuff Team Frustrating Teammate

Author:Andruw Jones

“I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.”

Should Team Responsible Journalist Articles Being Responsible

Author:Guus Hiddink

“You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.”

Important Whole Moving Three Decision Team Defenders Moving Up

Author:Guus Hiddink

“Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.”

Ifs Way Said Sometimes Can Do Team Football Weak Inferiors

Author:Guus Hiddink

“Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also means that there are more people wanting to wander around the narrative kitchen telling you how you should be making your story pies.”

People Should Mean Stories Games Bits Team Huge Wander Narrative Kitchen Relief Pie

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.”

Writing Wells Helping Happens Winning Understanding Differences Team Advice Losing Things Happen Pushing Finding Yourself Push Yourself Best Advice Never Stop Learning Winning Losing Awesome Things

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.”

World Mind May Winning Goal Team Cups Improving World Cup

Author:Berti Vogts

“You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.”

Knows Needs Mean Stills Play Running Young Leader Know How Player Team Function

Author:Berti Vogts

“Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.”

Spirit Team Football Healthy Team Spirit

Author:Berti Vogts

“If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.”

Ifs Needs Might Spirit Sports Attitude Team Beats Concerned Tables China Tennis Comparison Need A Change Sports Team Team Spirit Table Tennis

Author:Berti Vogts

“Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.”

World Mind Firsts Mean Results Successful Team Gold Competition Cups Being Successful Asian World Cup National Team

Author:Berti Vogts

“First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.”

World Firsts Would Be Sports Team Football Relation China Chinese Sports In General

Author:Berti Vogts

“In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.”

Years Stills Sports Team Son Tvs Couple Mad Heavy Hopefully Coaching My Son Daddy Sports Team

Author:Shwayze

“You do what you can to help your team win, whether it's playing that many minutes or 24 or whatever is asked of you, you do. You prepare yourself to play as much as you're asked to play.”

Play Helping Winning Team Minutes

Author:Chris Pronger

“I'm not involved in any Philadelphia-related game or situation. When people claim I'm going to have a "vendetta" against every other Eastern Conference team I don't understand the logic: I'm not the one doling out the punishment.”

People Games Situation Team Involved Logic Claims Punishment Related Eastern Conferences Philadelphia Vendetta

Author:Chris Pronger

“I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.”

Ifs Thinking May Winning Player Team Fit Skills Program Balls Faults Coaches Awful Winning Team Ball Players

Author:Tex Winter

“I was still very invested in the team, very invested in how we were doing. I realized I needed to take a step back and start focusing on myself, my head and my eye, try to get my health back.”

Trying Stills Eye Steps Team Needed I Realized

Author:Chris Pronger

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