#or

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#ben #better #casey #even #friend

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

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#could #fish #genius #island #made

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #interest #morals #never #politics

Poor fellow, he suffers from files. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#files #poor #suffers

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#destroy #far #far away #forget #lest

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

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#difficult #focus #get #important #important things