Jeff Bezos Quotes
"Luck plays an outsized role in every endeavor, and I can assure you we’ve had a bountiful supply.""You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of ‘be yourself’ is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t ex""We all know that distinctiveness – originality – is valuable. We are all taught to “be yourself. What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typi""If I have three good decisions a day, that’s enough. They should just be as high quality as I can make them.""Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard.""In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.""Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.""People who are right a lot listen a lot, and they change their mind a lot. People who are right a lot change their mind without a lot of new data. They wake up and reanalyze things and change their mind. If you don’t change your mind frequently, you’re goi""The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.""Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.""When you think about the things that you will regret when you’re 80, they’re almost always the things that you did not do. They’re acts of omission. Very rarely are you going to regret something that you did that failed and didn’t work or whatever.""As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ""When you look at something like, go back in time when we started working on Kindle almost seven years ago…. There you just have to place a bet. If you place enough of those bets, and if you place them early enough, none of them are ever betting the company""We understand that and believe in failing early and iterating until we get it right. When this process works, it means our failures are relatively small in size (most experiments can start small), and when we hit on something that is really working for cus""Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at.""If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.""The difference between baseball and business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step""We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs.""We take risks all the time, we talk about failure. We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don't, we're not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that's okay.""To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."
