Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
JB
Jeff BezosPrinceton University baccalaureate address (2010)
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)
- 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)
- 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 kindness and giving
- Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.Og Mandino
- Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.Brené Brown
- Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.Simon Sinek
- You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.Eckhart Tolle
- You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.Louise Hay
- Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.Louise Hay
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