# How To Be Successful - Sam Altman

<https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful>

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## What Jamie wrote

Altman's advice on success. Thirteen topics that he covers.

> 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

Dig in to read the whole thing. This is probably one of those that would be worth revisiting from time-to-time.

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## Appears in

- [WT221: Weekly Thing #221 / Rebooting, Incidents, Risk](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/221/), Notable

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