#iv

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. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#constraints #drives #frugality #get #i

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #businesses #characterized #companies #costs

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#business #businesses #expect #impact #important

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#get #know #lost #love #love stories

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#bring #free #into #joyous #nature

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#bound #flood #flows #freedom #own

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#attack #before #bombed #causes #charter

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#electoral #electoral process #fundamental #fundamental right #general

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#could #country #get #getting #half

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#forgetting #give #remembering #take #those