If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.
- Nothing is worse to an organisation than culture of fear
- Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
- What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
- Focusing is about saying no. And you’ve got to say no, no, no. When you say no, you piss off people.
- Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.
- Every day is day 1
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
- One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Impatience destroys at least 98% of hard work’s potential.
- No amount of VC money or good marketing can save a bad product. Period.
- Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
- If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.
- Help others. When you help others, you help yourself!
- Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
- [Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
- Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.