Jeff Bezos Quotes
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People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...
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Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
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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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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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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 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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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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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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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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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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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room...
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We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.
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What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.