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 :
- The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works.
- Seek advice on taking risk from a capitalist and not from a gambler.
- Traction equals satisfaction
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Never expect to be known without doing some impossible work.
- A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
- There is a hero in every heart just waiting for ignition.
- Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
- What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.
- You are about to succeed when the urge to quit is the greatest.
- I want to put a ding in the universe
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.
- Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
- Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
- We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?
- If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.