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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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If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
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We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform...
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If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
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We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.
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I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.
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The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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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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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
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I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
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I love my life. I love being an inventor.
Jeff Bezos