Jeff Bezos Quotes

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Jeff Bezos

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• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hands

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Problems
  • Racial

• My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Model

• One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Out

• ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Strong

• The bells they sound on BredonAnd still the steeples hum.'Come all to church, good people,' -Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;I hear you, I will come.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Important

• Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent, and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face.

  

  Adena Friedman

• When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

  

  James Bay
  • People
  • Fun
  • Cool

• With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

  

  Emily Blunt

• Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Game
  • Professional

• I want the world's data accessible.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • World

• Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

  

  Annette Funicello
  • Experience
  • Today
  • Black

• That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Soul
  • Intuition

• Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Art
  • Looks
  • Same

• Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Men
  • Like
  • Pictures

• Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.

  

  Jesy Nelson
  • Always
  • Yourself
  • Individual

• I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul

• Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.

  

  Gennadius of Constantinople
  • Giving
  • Suffering
  • inspirational

• We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Profitable Company
  • Unprofitable company