If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
JB
Jeff BezosInterview, Code Conference (2016)
About Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin. (b. 1964)
More from Jeff Bezos
- 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)
More quotes on courage
- I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.Frederick Douglass
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglass
- I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.Harriet Tubman
- I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.Harriet Tubman
- The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.Rosa Parks
- I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.Rosa Parks
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