One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.
JEFF BEZOZWhat we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that’s worth talking about.
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The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
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Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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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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