I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
JEFF BEZOZIt’s harder to be kind than clever.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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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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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
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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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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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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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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
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Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.
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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.
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Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
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The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
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