Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
JEFF BEZOZWill you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.
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You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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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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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.
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If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
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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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Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
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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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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
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