Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details.
JB
Jeff BezosAs quoted in The New Yorker (2019)
About Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin. (b. 1964)
More from Jeff Bezos
- If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.Interview, Code Conference (2016)
- Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.Interview, The Washington Post (2013)
- 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)
More quotes on leadership
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun Tzu
- Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.Sun Tzu
- A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.Sun Tzu
- All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.Sun Tzu
- Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.Sun Tzu
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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