To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
- [Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.
- If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
- Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
- Entrepreneurship is not a career choice, its a way of life!
- The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.
- The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- Future is out there exploring the stars … compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.
- Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.
- If you are always successful, you aren’t being brave enough.
- It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
- The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.