The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.
- Opinions killed more people than crime
- It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.
- Act and fail, but don’t fail to act.
- Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.
- When you think of quitting, remember why you started!
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
- No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
- A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
- If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
- You have to make your own chances.
- Failure should be archived in head, not heart!
- A disadvantage is often a seed of an advantage.
- Companies can’t be sold, they can only be bought.
- All businesses — no matter if they make dog food or software — don’t sell products, they sell solutions.
- All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.
- Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.
- We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?