Entrepreneurship Quotes

"Your margin is my opportunity." "If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away." "If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table." "Me-too companies have not done that well over time." "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" "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" "The value of an idea lies in the using of it." "Stay hungry, stay foolish." "You've got to be able to take rejection in order to succeed in the business." "Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards" "I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure" "My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million in Tesla, and $10 million in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent." "Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times." "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man" "I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute" "In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love" "People don't care about what you say, they care about what you build" "Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal" "The best ideas come from solving your own problems" "Don't wait for an opportunity. Create it."