Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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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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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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going 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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I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
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In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts...
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Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.
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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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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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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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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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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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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
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Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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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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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not...
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I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.
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I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
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Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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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.