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One of the Greatest Speeches Ever | Jeff Bezos
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you guys will find that you have
passions and having a passion is a gift
I think we all have passions and you
don't get to choose them they pick you
but you have to be alert to them you
have to be looking for them and when you
find your passion it's a fantastic gift
for you because it gives you direction
it gives you purpose you could have a
job or you can have a career or you can
have a calling and the best thing is to
have a calling and if you find your
passion you'll have that and all your
work won't feel like work to you many
many kids and many grown-ups do figure
out over time what their passions are
and sometimes we let our I don't think
it's that hard I think what happens
though sometimes is that we let our
intellectual selves overrule those
passions and so that's what needs to be
guarded against my job one of my jobs as
the leader of Amazon is to encourage
people to be bold
and people love to focus on things that
aren't yet working and that's good it's
human nature that kind of divine
discontent can be very helpful but you
really you know it's incredibly hard to
get people to take bold bets and you
need to encourage that and if you're
gonna take bold bets they're gonna be
experiments and if their experiments you
don't know ahead of time go they're
going to work experiments are by their
very nature prone to failure but big
success is a few big successes
compensate for dozens and dozens of
things that didn't work so you know bold
bets AWS Kindle Amazon Prime our 3rd
party seller business all of those
things are examples of bull bets that
that did work and they pay for a lot of
experiments I've made billions of
dollars of failures at amazon.com
literally billions of dollars of
failures and
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