Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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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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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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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.
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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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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.
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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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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not...
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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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I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.
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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’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.