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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Jeff Bezos

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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Business Decision Leaving Opportunity Table Work
The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.
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Business Customer Need Service Work
Do something you’re very passionate about, and don’t try to chase what is kind of the “hot passion” of the day.
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Chase Entrepreneur Motivational Passion Passionate
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
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Business Change Tool
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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Capital Investment Leadership Market Revenue
It’s harder to be kind than clever.
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Clever Inspirational Kindness One Liner
A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.
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Addiction Business Company Shine
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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Business Come Failure Invention Optional
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
I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.
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Business Future Important Spend Thinking Time Value
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.
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Business Innovation Thinking
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.
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Choose Force Interest Mistake Passion People Try
People don’t want gadgets, they want services.
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Business Gadget People Service Want
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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Build Business People Service Worth
What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
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Business DAngryous Evolve One Liner
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

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