A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time – most people don’t even try and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching anywhere near their potential.
Samuel H. “Sam” Altman – American entrepreneur, investor, and programmer; CEO OpenAI (b. 1985), from his blog “How To Be Successful”, “9. Be willful” (24 January 2019), Quotations book 2025