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 :
- The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
- If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.
- No amount of VC money or good marketing can save a bad product. Period.
- INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment.
- Success doesn’t suddenly fall out of the sky into your lap. It’s the result of taking one step, each day, in the direction of your dreams.
- Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
- You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
- You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.
- Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
- Entrepreneurship should be a viable career path not just a last resort to joblessness.
- If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think. Whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.
- Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.
- Schooling doesn’t assure employment but skill does.
- Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
- Successful people follow their passion, not money. Nonetheless, their success attracts money.
- If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
- Nations are not built on the laws of governments, strong nations are built on the sweat of entrepreneurs
- People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.