Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
JEFF BEZOZIt’s harder to be kind than clever.
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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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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Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
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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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My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
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What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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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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The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
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I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
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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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People don’t want gadgets, they want services.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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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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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning.
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If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.
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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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Everything you are comes from your choices.
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