Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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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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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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
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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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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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If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
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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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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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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
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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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Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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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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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room...
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Your margin is my opportunity.
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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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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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It's hard to find things that won't sell online.
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Our garage was basically science fair central.
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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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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.