A Quote by Jeff Bezos

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

Jeff Bezos

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Invention Long Long-Term Misunderstood Requires Term Willingness

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Jeff Bezos
American - Businessman
Born: January 12, 1964

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

Jeff Bezos

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Jeff Bezos

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.

Robert Sheaffer

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Jeremy Corbyn

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

Tony Robbins

Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of rebellion against society; it’s an act of common sense within society. Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive “bundle of cash”; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

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Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

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It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.

Mark Pincus

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

Helen Fisher

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.

Jeff Bezos

Britain can choose, as others are, short term fixes and more stimulus. Or we can lead the world with long-term solutions to long-term problems.