Jeff Bezos Quotes
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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I'm cranky.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
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I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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Modernization means Westernization.
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
