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 :
- Do what you fear and fear disappears.
- Entrepreneur, Vincent Van Gogh had no accredited training in art but yet his distinction is generational.
- One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
- If you don’t learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.
- Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.
- Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.
- Those who don’t jump will never fly.
- Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.
- Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
- A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
- Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
- Success is not a result. Success is a mindset.
- You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
- If not now, when?
- If price is what you communicate, don’t complain about lack of margins.
- Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.
- Always deliver more than expected.