Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room...
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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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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.
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We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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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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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...
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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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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'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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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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You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.
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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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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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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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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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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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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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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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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.