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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
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For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
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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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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
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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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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not...
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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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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 think if people read more, that is a better world.
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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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I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.
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In the end, we are our choices.
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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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When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.
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I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
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You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.
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