#kindle

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#business #customers #determine #even #example

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#beauty

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#e-readers #kindle #reading #read

You see, but you do not observe. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#unexpected

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#slavery

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#irony

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. ↗

— Anne Rice

#loneliness

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#life