Quote

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

Marc Andreessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marc Andreessen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 9
Blogger
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Investor
Programmer
Software Engineer
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Marc Lowell Andreessen
Maybe
Hits
Running
Swings
Two
Runs
Home
Base
Ten
Seven
Pay
Strikeouts
Lucky
Bats

More quotes by Marc Andreessen

Image
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
Marc Andreessen
Image
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
Marc Andreessen
Image
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Innovation accelerates and compounds.
Marc Andreessen
Image
The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.
Marc Andreessen
Image
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
Marc Andreessen
Image
The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreessen
Image
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Marc Andreessen
Image
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
Marc Andreessen
Image
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Marc Andreessen
Image
China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.
Marc Andreessen
Image
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
Marc Andreessen
Image
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.
Marc Andreessen
Image
I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.
Marc Andreessen
Image
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
Marc Andreessen