Important Quotes

Education is the most important weapon to change the fate of a nation.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I'm working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I'm not going to feel good about how I'm spending my time. And that's what this company is.

The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

These small things-nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness-are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It's hard to get off of that equilibrium.

It's not easy to work here, but we are working to build something important, something that matters to our customers, something that we can all tell our grandchildren about.

Setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be, the single most important element of Amazon.com's success.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' And I almost never get the question: 'What's not going to change in the next 10 years?' And I submit to you that the second question is actually the more important of the two.

The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.

This is the way human beings contrive to feed their self-destructive vices: trying not to see them, trying not to acknowledge them, delaying the important decisions and pretending that nothing will happen.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.