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Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
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Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.
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When competitors are in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.
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E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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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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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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Your margin is my opportunity.
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You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
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There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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It's hard to find things that won't sell online.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
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One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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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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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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