We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Jeff BezosRead
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
Interpretation
Success is not a zero-sum game; many can achieve it together without others having to fail.
In this quote, Jeff Bezos emphasizes the idea that success is not limited to a select few, and that multiple parties can thrive simultaneously. He challenges the traditional notion that for one person or entity to win, others must necessarily lose, advocating instead for a more collaborative and inclusive approach to achieving success.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a group of entrepreneurs, highlighting the benefits of collaboration.
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Work hard, have fun and make history.
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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