Jeff Bezos Quotes

The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Chance
  • Period
  • Scared

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Problem
  • Vision
  • Enough

• My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Passion
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Career
  • Always
  • Been

• Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • War
  • Think
  • Serious

• I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Me
  • Serious

• Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Power
  • Giving

• A million years went by quick.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Years
  • Million
  • Quick

• I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • World
  • Experience
  • Career

• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Strong
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Words
  • Smart

• I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Remember

• Any kind of dance or house, remix type music, I really love that. That will really pump me up. I really love anything Beyonce - honestly, that would pump me up.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Decision
  • Framework