Quotes by Marc Andreesen

This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

— Marc Andreesen

Life

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

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 Andreesen

Success

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 Andreesen

Wisdom

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

— Marc Andreesen

Success

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

— Marc Andreesen

Success

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

— Marc Andreesen

Success

I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

— Marc Andreesen

Wisdom