Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

I believe in being an innovator.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

I don't know whether I can call myself a visionary.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.