Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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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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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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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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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Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
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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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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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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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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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But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
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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 Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.