It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.
JEFF BEZOZMy view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
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I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.
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One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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We got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
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Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
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If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.
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