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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Jeff Bezos

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Future Important Spend Thinking Time Value
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
Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
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Business Different Encounter Failure Planning Reality Success Survive
Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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Maintain Optimism Urgent
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.
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Business Customer Ideas Invention Patience Reason Stuck Success
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
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Book Love Narrative Reading Story World
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
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
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Business Hangout Inspirational Life People Resource
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
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Character Expense Kindness Money
It’s time to go back to the Moon, this time to stay.
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Moon Stay Time
Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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Business Decision Help People Purchase Strategy
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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Advance Business Company Entrepreneur Success
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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Business Creation Opportunity
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.
JEFF BEZOS

Against Business Change Complain Future Strategy World
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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Choose Force Interest Mistake Passion People Try
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
JEFF BEZOS

Choice Clever Gift Kindness One Liner

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