The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.
- Impatience makes even the strong weak.
- I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.
- Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.
- I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business.
- Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
- What you are seeking, is seeking you.
- If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- If you really want to be happy, be happy and share happiness
- All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
- An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song.
- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- 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.
- Every dream needs a bigger dream.
- I’d been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.
- Commitment shows up before results do!
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.