Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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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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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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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
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That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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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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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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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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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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Everything you are comes from your choices.