Jeff Bezos Quotes

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Failure

• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Together
  • Political

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• Translation is the art of failure.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Art
  • Failure
  • Translation

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest

• There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Time
  • Failure

• I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. The loss taught me not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Country
  • American
  • Failure

• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Up
  • Song
  • Failure

• However intimate we may be with the operations of the mind, we cannot think more than two or three minutes a day; - unless, by taste or by profession, we practice, for hours on end, brutalizing words in order to extract ideas from them...The intellectual represents the major disgrace, the culminating failure of Homo sapiens.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Mind
  • May
  • Words

• Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • Failure

• Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be - they're adding a lot of samples on things, or effects or whatever - and we just wanted the drums to be raw so you could really hear what Brooks Wackerman is capable of.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Rock

• I'm done with the shows about "women got murdered by husband." My wife watches them constantly, but it makes me want to kill myself. They serve no purpose. They're not news shows. They just exploit all of these murder victims.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Wife
  • Purpose
  • Husband

• Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

  

  Berton Braley
  • Steel
  • Seeker
  • Workshop

• Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Failure
  • Invention
  • Parcel