Jeff Bezos Quotes

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

All progress is experimental.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

Everything is an experiment.

I want to keep experimenting and trying to change my game.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.