Jeff Bezos Quotes

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

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• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • History
  • Obstacles
  • Winners

• Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Career
  • Season
  • Winners

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Place
  • New York
  • Winners

• The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Thoughts
  • Miracles

• Winners are born, Champions are made.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Born
  • Made
  • Champions

• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

  

  Bill Gates
  • School
  • Winners
  • Losers

• Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Time
  • Winners

• Winners don’t talk about trying, but only what must be done."

  

  Barry Farber
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Winners

• There are so many great golfers out on tour now. Just take a look at how many first-time winners we've had this year, ... You can't just think of Annika as the biggest challenge anymore though you still need to be mindful when she's out there.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Tour
  • First Time
  • Winners

• One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

  

  Rick Santelli
  • Back
  • Serve
  • Winners

• Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners.

  

  Alexander Vassiliev
  • Happiness
  • Female
  • Winners

• Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.

  

  Ed Foreman
  • Habit
  • Develop
  • Winners

• Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

  

  William Wegman
  • Somehow
  • Premise
  • Invert

• Winners lose more often than losers lose.

  

  William Cranch Bond
  • Winners
  • Losers

• America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • America
  • Soldiers
  • Winners

• The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Problem
  • Wrong
  • Generation

• My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")... I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • Style
  • Rules
  • Written

• If you want a progressive (member of Parliament), a New Democrat, one who will fight for change, then you have to vote New Democrat. It's that simple. In order to have the Canada you want, you have to vote for the Canada you want.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Change
  • Simple
  • Fight

• You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Imagination
  • Genius

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Winners
  • Premise