Jeff Bezos Quotes
We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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The almost total disappearance of coinage from daily use in the post-Roman West is further powerful evidence of a remarkable change in levels of economic sophistication.
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I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.
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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
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We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.
