"My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever."
"I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."
"If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over."
"As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you’re going to invent, you’re going to disrupt."
"In the end, we are our choices."
"If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right."
"Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new."
"Mr. Bezos, can you even spell ‘profit’?” Brokaw asked, highlighting the fact that Amazon was hemorrhaging money as it grew. “Sure,” Bezos replied, “P-R-O-P-H-E-T."
"As the famed investor Benjamin Graham said, “In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term, it’s a weighing machine."
"People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature"
"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."
"So, the four elements of high standards as we see it: they are teachable, they are domain specific, you must recognize them, and you must explicitly coach realistic scope."
"In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story."
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