Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.
JEFF BEZOZPercentage 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.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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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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Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
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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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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.
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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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People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
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