Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

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• I'm an entrepreneur.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Entrepreneur

• Chrysler builds great cars.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Cars
  • Builds

• We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Pain

• My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Son
  • Laughs
  • Giddy

• All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Truth
  • Lying
  • Order

• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Political

• Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Live
  • Solitude

• To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Difficult

• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Chinese
  • Gun

• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • America

• I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Challenge
  • Vision
  • Spirit

• The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Firsts

• There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

  

  George Clooney
  • Church
  • Marriage
  • Looks

• I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

  

  Faith Erin Hicks
  • Nothing
  • Conqueror

• The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Secret
  • Parasites
  • Sores

• The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Justice
  • Independence

• I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Music
  • Think
  • Mean

• If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

  

  James Franco
  • Morning

• The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Philosophy
  • Buddha
  • Communist

• If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Sake
  • Criticized