Jeff Bezos Quotes

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

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• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • American
  • Amazing

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Friend

• If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Challenge

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Work
  • Person
  • First

• I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Business
  • Risk

• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• I like to space out my work.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Space
  • Like

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Loss

• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Work
  • Money
  • Age

• When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • People
  • World
  • Success

• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • God
  • Pray
  • Dialogue

• I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • American
  • Small

• You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Work
  • Amazon.com