We are comfortable planting seeds and waiting for them to grow into trees.
We are comfortable planting seeds and waiting for them to grow into trees.

Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- If everything is a priority, nothing is.
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
- Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.
- Success is like an iceberg. Nobody sees the work that comprises it.
- Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- 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.
- I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
- Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
- You cannot begin, until you begin.
- Traction equals satisfaction
- It’s not what you got, but what you gave.
- Sell before you start
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
- If you are going through a lot, you are going to get a lot.
- A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
- If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.