We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Jeff BezosRead
Work hard, have fun and make history.
Interpretation
Achieving greatness requires dedication, enjoyment, and leaving a lasting impact.
This quote by Jeff Bezos emphasizes the importance of hard work in the pursuit of success while also highlighting the joy that should accompany this effort. It suggests that not only should individuals strive diligently towards their goals, but they should also find pleasure in their work, as this combination can lead to making a significant and memorable contribution to the world.
In practice
A motivational speech at a corporate event to inspire employees.
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
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.
We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.
Touchdowns to me means that you're scoring points and helping your team win games. You can have a lot of yards and not have points and not win games. So, this only means something because it has helped our teams win games and we won the division today in a competitive AFC West, that's a good thing.
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