#be

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#being #competitor #doing #more #pioneering

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#another #before #hoping #i #i am

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#because #being #company #get #last

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#creates #depressed #every #gold #gone

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#because #believe #better #business #care

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#cracked #i #indeed #internet #much

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #big fan #customers #fan #i

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#been #computers #i #intersection #revolutionize

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. ↗

— George Wald

#before #committed #committing #crimes #held

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#current #current situation #disastrous #employing #ends