Jeff Bezos Quotes

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

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• Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Happy
  • Look
  • Fool

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

  Iman
  • Women
  • Black
  • Beauty

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It's great that people are interested in Mars.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • People
  • Great
  • Mars

• I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Right

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Important
  • Business
  • News

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Today
  • Desire

• In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Revolution
  • Scenes
  • Romanticizing

• I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Try

• For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Political

• We always did everything ourselves.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Did

• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

  

  Dan Heisman
  • Work
  • Playing
  • Follow

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Entrepreneur

• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  

  Jack Black
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• I believe in the rule of law, and I respect the will of Colorado voters.

  

  George Brauchler
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Respect

• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Work
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  • Invention