To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment.
JB
Jeff BezosAmazon shareholder letter (2015)
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)
- 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)
More quotes on creativity and innovation
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Steve Jobs
- Creativity is just connecting things.Steve Jobs
- You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.Steve Jobs
- It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.Steve Jobs
- Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.Walt Disney
- Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.David Ogilvy
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