I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- High expectations are the key to everything.
- Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
- The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.
- Fly, if you are tired of walking.
- Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
- You cannot begin, until you begin.
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
- Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
- If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
- A leader without a team is a bow without arrows
- I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
- You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.
- Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
- Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
- Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
- The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.