Activity Is Not Output.

You Have To Understand What It Is That You Are Better At Than Anybody Else And Mercilessly Focus Your Efforts On It.

I Wasn't Cut Out To Be An Opera Singer, But It Was A Nice Fantasy For A Teenager Growing Up In Hungary During The Stalinist Era.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

Investment Decisions And Personal Decisions Don't Wait For The Picture To Be Clarified.

You Need Just The Right Amount Of Ambition . . . If You Have Too Little Ambition, You Don't Push Or Work Hard. If You Have Too Much Ambition, You Put Yourself Ahead Of Others, Elbow Them Out Of Your Way.