Life Putting » Jeff Bezos http://www.danputt.com Sometimes it's quotes, sometimes it's my thoughts, sometimes it's pictures. Tue, 08 May 2012 14:48:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Jeff Bezos on Passion http://www.danputt.com/2009/08/26/jeff-bezos-on-passion/ http://www.danputt.com/2009/08/26/jeff-bezos-on-passion/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:19:12 +0000 dan http://danputtdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/jeff-bezos-on-passion Continue reading →]]>
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Enjoyed this comment from founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos on the role of passion in starting a business…

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. If you’re really interested in software and computer science, you should focus on that. But if you’re really interested in medicine, and you decide you’re going to become an Internet entrepreneur because it looks like everybody else is doing well, then that’s probably not going to work. You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you. One of the reasons you saw so many companies that were formed in 1998 or 1999 fail is that they were chasing the wave. And that usually doesn’t work. Find that area that you are interested in and passionate about–and wait for the wave to find you.–

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