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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.

Jeff Bezos

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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Business Discover Involvement
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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Chase Entrepreneur Motivational Passion Passionate
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
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Business Change Entrepreneur Mind People Right Success
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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Business Creation Opportunity
Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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Business Cost Dominate People Power Serve Utilization
Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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Culture Evolve History People Planning
Percentage 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.
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Amount Business Company Money Percentage
The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.
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Business Customer Need Service Work
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
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Attitude Build Choice Inspirational Story Yourself
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
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Invention Misunderstanding Requirement
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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Brand Business Company Hard Work Person Reputation Try
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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Experiment Failure Function Success
If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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Business Decision Leaving Opportunity Table Work
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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Build Business People Service Worth
Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
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Business Customer Satisfaction Win
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

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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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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