Key Quotes

"I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."

Stanford GSB

"Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people; it's formed out of people who suffered."

Stanford GSB

"I have a greater drive from not wanting to fail than the drive of wanting to succeed."

Joe Rogan

"People with very high expectations have very low resilience. One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations."

Stanford GSB

"Building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder than any of us expected. Nobody in their right mind would do it."

Acquired Podcast

"It was literally a one-question IPO roadshow and the question was: when are you going out of business?"

Morgan Stanley Conference

"I just think my heart rate goes down when the world is falling apart."

On resilience

"Many of our strategies are presented in broad daylight at GTC years in advance."

All-In Podcast

"This chart basically describes 100% of Nvidia's strategies."

GTC 2026

"You should not equate the price of the chip with the cost of computing."

All-In Podcast

"Even when the competitor's chips are free, it's not cheap enough."

On competition

"We just really evolved from a GPU company to an AI factory company."

All-In Podcast

"Accelerated computing is, by definition, proprietary. There is nothing about our architecture that is compatible with somebody else's."

Morgan Stanley

"This is how intelligence is made. A new kind of factory, generator of tokens, the building blocks of AI."

GTC 2026

"Every industrial company will become a robotics company."

GTC 2026

"The availability of electricity, not the availability of GPUs, will determine how far and fast the industry can scale."

Joe Rogan

"An AI that can perceive became an AI that can generate. An AI that can generate became an AI that can reason. An AI that can reason now became an AI that can actually do work."

GTC 2026

"Compute equals revenues. I'm certain also that compute equals GDP."

Morgan Stanley

"That $500,000 engineer: if they did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be concerned."

All-In Podcast

"Every single SaaS company will become a GaaS company, agentic as a service."

GTC 2026

"There will be no software in the future that's not agentic. How could you have software that's dumb?"

Morgan Stanley

"What's the absolute fastest this could be done if nothing stood in the way but the laws of physics?"

NVIDIA's Speed of Light question

"Your organization should be the architecture of the machinery of building the product."

Acquired Podcast

"I'm looking to detect the weak signals."

On reading 100 emails daily

"Status reports are too refined by the time they get to me."

On banning them

"Is this something that's insanely hard to do? If it's not hard to do, we should back away from it."

All-In Podcast

"I love constraints. In a world of constraint, you have no choice but to choose the best."

Morgan Stanley

"I was writing the speech while I was giving the speech."

All-In Podcast

"The inner loop of the software tends to be about 5% of the code but 99% of the compute time."

Morgan Stanley