Jeff Bezos Quotes
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
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I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
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Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.
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By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.
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The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
