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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Jeff Bezos

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and thy’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Customer Ideas Invention Patience Reason Stuck Success
There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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Business Discover Involvement
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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Business Competitor Customer Obsess
I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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Business Hire Interview People Wrong
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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Brain Human Intelligence Machine
You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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Business Buy Customer Negotiate Price
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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Business Customer Entrepreneur Excitement Expectation Finding Morning Rise
If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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Allow Business Competitor Customer Focus
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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Business Creation Opportunity
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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Flexible Inspirational Stubborn Vision
Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
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Business Customer Satisfaction Win
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.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Innovation Thinking
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
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Against Business Change Complain Future Strategy World
If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.
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Accomplishment Business Thinking
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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Business Decision Fact Hierarchy Rule
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
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Book Creation Narrative People

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