Jeff Bezos Quotes

My greatest regret is selling my company.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I've made is to turn down work.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

It is painful to say that the best player you have is better off trying something new.

The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn't have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there's any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching.

With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are things I shouldn't have said or done. It was early in my career, maybe too early. I didn't know it was the only Champions League I'd win, for example.

I'll look back on my career as a whole and at parts of it and say I should have enjoyed that more. I suppose that's my own fault.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

I feel like I turned down a lot of things that I wish I hadn't. But you never know when you're younger. I don't have regrets about certain things I turned down. Those films would have required things of me that would have been challenging, and they ended up being really good movies. But I was never a careerist, I never thought in those terms. I'd be like, "Oh, I'm tired. I don't want to work."

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.