Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
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I love my life. I love being an inventor.
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
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Your margin is my opportunity.
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E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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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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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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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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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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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing 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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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
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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 truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.
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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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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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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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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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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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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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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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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.