“It is far better to cannibalize yourself than have someone else do it,”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“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. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton University, May 30, 2010”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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