You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Commitment shows up before results do!
- Hungry people always win.
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
- Purists don’t take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.
- Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.
- Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
- Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
- The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
- Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
- Integrity is the bond of trust.
- GRATITUDE changes ATTITUDE in an instant.
- I like treating things as if they’re small, you know Amazon even though it is a large company, I want it to have the heart and spirit of a small one.
- What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
- Earning is a product of learning. You’re only one letter away from earning more.
- Taking risk will have its consequences, so does not taking any risk.
- Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple.
- Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we’re going to make it happen. As God as my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
- Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.
- If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.
- Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.