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.

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Other Entrepreneurship :
- I would love to help quality journalism,. We can’t depend on bloggers for our news.
- I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.
- Just pick a goal and stick to it – no big complicated secret.
- Seek advice on taking risk from a capitalist and not from a gambler.
- Inaction is the biggest failure
- The key to success is to start before you are ready.
- Entrepreneurs don´t play safe, they play good.
- If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.
- To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.
- Start with the customer and work backward
- What we need to do is always lean into the future; you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
- Life is tough, but you are tougher.
- You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.
- What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- Love your work and success is your next customer.
- There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass―covering.
- I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
- What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
- Lesson learned – in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.
- Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment