Jeff Bezos Quotes

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

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

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.