If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
Interview, Code Conference (2016)
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Jeff Bezos quotes
b. 1964 · Business and entrepreneurs
Founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin.
7 quotes, 7 traced to where Bezos said or wrote them.
Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Interview, The Washington Post (2013)
Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details.
As quoted in The New Yorker (2019)
I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
Interview, Academy of Achievement (2001)
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
Princeton University baccalaureate address (2010)
In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Princeton University baccalaureate address (2010)
To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment.
Amazon shareholder letter (2015)