To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.
To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.

Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
- Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.
- Be bold to begin.
- What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’.
- There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
- You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling.
- Stress comes from ignoring the things that you shouldn’t be ignoring.
- Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
- Constraint inspires creativity
- You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Living is different from just existing.
- In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.
- Failure doesn’t define you, giving up does.
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- FOCUS: Follow On Course Until Successful.
- [Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
- Turn your Why into Why not?
- Success is not what you have, but who you are.