If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
JEFF BEZOZ
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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We got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.
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My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
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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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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.
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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
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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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We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
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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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What 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.
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