Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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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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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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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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.
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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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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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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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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
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Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.
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I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.
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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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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...
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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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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.