Invent Quotes

If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own.

You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it's disruptive to the old way.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don't know to ask for. We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap intoour own inner imagination about what's possible.

As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you're going to invent, you're going to disrupt.

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.

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.

From a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology and also then, soon after, in business, because I figured that inventing things wasn't any good; you really had to get them out into the world and have people use them to have any effect.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.