I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- The worst thing you can do is not try
- 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.
- Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.
- Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- Success is not what you have, but who you are.
- If Entrepreneurship was easy, the term would have been easier to pronounce too!
- Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
- Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
- The key to success is to start before you are ready.
- Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
- Start with the customer and work backward
- In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment however you define it.
- Enjoyment is not the result of success: it is a requirement for success.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- Sorry Houston, but failure is an option.
- Success and failure come and go, but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters.
- Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
- Your purpose in life is to know yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, be yourself
- Generally, Most of the successful people were not the best in school.
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.