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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Jeff Bezos

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Failure Motivational Regret Success
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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Amount Business Company Money Percentage
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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Brand Business Company Hard Work Person Reputation Try
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
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Business Customer Experience Guest Invitation Party
Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.
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Brand Business People Room Success
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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Business Change Tool
If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.
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Against Business Experiment Flexible Give Up Problem Solution Stubborn
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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Business Customer Feature Judgement Mind Simplicity
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
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Business Challenge Change Irrelevant
My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
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Bad Innovation Inspirational Time View
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
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Business Dedication Experiment Motivational Number Success
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
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Business Customer Internet Physical World
Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
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Business Customer Determination Entrepreneur Need Work
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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Business Competitor Customer Obsess
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Come Failure Invention Optional
We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Growth Inspirational Success Survival

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