Jeff Bezos Quotes

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

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• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Problems

• Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Risk
  • Credit
  • Investment

• Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Like

• The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Faces

• Who runs the world? Girls.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Girl
  • Running

• It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Cold

• A lot of the older generation are dying off. The younger generation don't really know it. You don't see a lot of 20- or 30-year-olds eating it.

  

  Bobby Moore
  • Dying
  • Generation
  • Older

• Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

  

  William Penn
  • Passion
  • Compassion
  • Savior

• What we play is life.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Life
  • Play

• If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

  

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak
  • Speak
  • Word
  • Replace

• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.

  

  Miller Williams
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Mysterious

• People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Hands

• My true role is to get actors to understand what the camera is doing and what my intent is so they don't waste their good stuff on over-the-shoulder shots and wide shots. They need to know when we're going in to get something important, so they know to really go for it. No human being can give you 1,000 percent on every single take or shot, so you need to let them know what you're heading for. It's important that the actors know they're being looked after and being recorded in a way so they can do their best.

  

  David Nutter
  • Important
  • Understand
  • Something

• I have never said I would adopt the euro. Not today, not tomorrow, not in five years. We will introduce the euro when it will benefit Poles and Poland.

  

  Ewa Kopacz
  • Introduce
  • Adopt
  • Poland

• I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Misunderstood
  • Innovate