Jeff Bezos Life Quotes & Sayings

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, 'Are they right?' And if they are, you need to adapt what they're doing. If they're not right, if you really have conviction that they're not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It's a key part of invention. — Jeff Bezos

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.' And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day. — Jeff Bezos

Warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow. — Constance Fenimore Woolson

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering. — Emily Bronte

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large. — Jeff Bezos

Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important. — Jenny Han

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life. — Jeff Bezos

When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. — Jeff Bezos

Nick didn't take from me, he infused me, showed me the woman I could be - the one I wanted to be. Sexy. Fierce. Shameless. One who took what she wanted without apology. Without fear. — Keri Lake

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later. — Jeff Bezos

It is for the artist ... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features. — James Whistler

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things. — Ian Dunbar

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. — Jeff Bezos

One big bonus: e-mail! Just like the days back on Hermes, I get data dumps. Of course, they relay e-mail from friends and family, but NASA also sends along choice messages from the public. I've gotten e-mail from rock stars, athletes, actors and actresses, and even the President. One of them was from my alma mater, the University of Chicago. They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially "colonized" it. So technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong! — Andy Weir

Every human being I have ever met, irrespective of the business, the job or life situation they are in, possesses at least one and normally multiple instant jackpots that are within their grasp.
All they have to do is recognize them, believe that they are there, and believe that they are entitled to harvest them and the financial and the personal wealth and riches that come along with them. — Jay Abraham