Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I love my life. I love being an inventor.
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I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
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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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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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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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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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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
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If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.
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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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E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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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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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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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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For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
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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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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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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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What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.