If you’re watching your competitors, you’re unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own.
If you’re watching your competitors, you’re unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own.

Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.
- I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.
- Without breaking the rules sometimes, you won’t achieve anything.
- An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
- Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.
- If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together
- Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
- If you don’t appreciate your customers, someone else will.
- In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
- Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
- Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
- An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
- A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
- Entrepreneurship should be a viable career path not just a last resort to joblessness.
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
- There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.