Marc Andreessen Quotes

“The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.”

“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”

“To do original work, it is not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.”

“Put yourself in situations where you will succeed or fail by your own decisions and actions, and where that success or failure will be highly visible.”

“My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.”

“Be a student of the marketplace, not a victim of the weather.”

“Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts.”

“In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.”

“One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.”

“When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins. When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins. When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.”

“Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.”

“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”

“You’re almost always better off making your business better than your pitch better.”

“When you’re dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn’t, no matter how good of a salesman you are.”