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.

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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

• And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• 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

• Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

  

  David Hare
  • Great
  • Business

• 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

• I am not interested in churning out a certain number of films every year. For me, it's about the quality of work. I think it's about following your instincts and doing a film for the right reason.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Quality

• If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Party

• I don't root for either team, but in the end, I have to be happy for Dan and the way he's building that program. They continue to make improvements. I'm sure this is a big step for them.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Program

• 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