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 :
- Be bold. Take risks. Get noticed.
- An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.
- The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
- If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.
- Great losses are great lessons.
- No one needs to light a fire under you when there’s a fire in you.
- Do what you love and love what you do.
- You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.
- Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we’re going to make it happen. As God as my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
- Focusing is about saying no. And you’ve got to say no, no, no. When you say no, you piss off people.
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Everything I dreamed of became a reality, and my reality became a dream.
- Urgency makes the difference between practitioners, proclaimers and procrastinators.
- We are very careful about what features we add because we can’t take them away.
- Success is making those who believed in you look brilliant.
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
- The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
- If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.