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1439 Businessman Quotes

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Creative Else Energy Interface
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Advance Answer Away Company
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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Physics Princeton Specifically Study
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Make Mediocre Other People
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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

About Exchanges Know Meaningful
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Always Discovery Involved Serendipity
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Amazon Big Customer First
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

About Author Book Key
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I'm a genetic optimist.

Genetic Optimist
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Advertiser Any Mission Skeptical
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Because Behalf Customers Experiment
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Against Always Around Because
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Aging Base Become Constantly
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Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Allow Beautiful Cultural Dinner
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When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Building Dynamic Entrepreneurial Explosion
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

Because Cool Mars People
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Car Data Drive Efficient
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You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

Anonymous Arrange Benefit Combined
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Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Companies Great Industries Lot
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I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Further Gigantic Little Lottery
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We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

Better Going Leave Make
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I grew up reading science fiction.

Grew Reading Science Fiction
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Abandon Altogether Anyway Back
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We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Build Humans Interesting Live
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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

Blue Motto Origin Our
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

Cannot Company Dorm Giant
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Commercial Enterprise Government Improving
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

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Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

Children Course Essential Explore
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The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

Dynamic Figure How Out
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Communicate Connect Efficiently Facebook
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Believe Built Connected Everyone
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The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Any Biggest Changing Fail
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Big Figuring Focus Next
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Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
About Care First Our
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Comfortable Different Evolved Gotten
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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Ends Everyone Give Giving
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We're running the company to serve more people.

Company More People Running
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I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

About Back Business Know
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Giving Making More People
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Africa Dying Front House
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Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Heard Internet Million Networks
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Always Core Desire Existed
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I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Actually Business Easier First
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The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Approach Basis Build Music
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In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Company Doing Everything Else
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The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

About Know People Question
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