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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Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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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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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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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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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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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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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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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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My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
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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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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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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
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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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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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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 know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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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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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."