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Jeff Bezos Quotes

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.""The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.""To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.""Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.""I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident""There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.""I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.""Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.""We need never be ashamed of our tears.""Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.""We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.""Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.""Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.""If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.""Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.""I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.""As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.""If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.""Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.""Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."