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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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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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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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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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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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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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Everything you are comes from your choices.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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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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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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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 are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
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The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.
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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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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're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
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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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