If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.
JEFF BEZOZWe can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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In the end, we are our choices.
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
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One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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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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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.
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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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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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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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