Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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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Infrastructure web services had to happen.
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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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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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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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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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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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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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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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I never worked on the school newspaper.
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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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I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.
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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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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'
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I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.
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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.
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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.
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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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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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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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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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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.