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 :
- A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
- Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
- Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.
- To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
- Life is tough, but you are tougher.
- Help others. When you help others, you help yourself!
- The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
- Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
- Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
- Commitment is a continuous effort.
- If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
- Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others.
- A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
- Dreams don’t get done until they are due.
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
- 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.
- All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
- Every once in a while, I find myself in the presence of purity – purity of spirit and love – and I always cry. It always just reaches in and grabs me.
- Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
- My story isn’t over until I win.