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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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We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
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I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
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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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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
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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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If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.
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Infrastructure web services had to happen.
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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Our vision is every book ever printed in any language fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device in under 60 seconds.
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.
Jeff Bezos