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 BEZOSWill you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
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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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Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
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I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
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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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Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
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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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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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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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Everything you are comes from your choices.
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If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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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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