Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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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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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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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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
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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 buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
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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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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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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 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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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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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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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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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.