Jeff Bezos Quotes

Biography: Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquer... more Biography: Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he graduated from Princeton University in 1986. In 1994, he launched Amazon, which revolutionized e-commerce. Bezos also founded Blue Origin, a space exploration company, and owns The Washington Post. less

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contempti""Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with ""I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.""It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.""Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.""Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.""Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.""If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.""As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.""I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.""Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.""If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.""Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.""Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.""We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.""Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.""We need never be ashamed of our tears.""Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.""I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.""There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

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