Jeff Bezos Quotes
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We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
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My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today...
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If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.
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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
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Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
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The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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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.
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Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."
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Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
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Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August.
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.