Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
JEFF BEZOZWe’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.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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Complaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
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Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
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If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
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No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
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There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
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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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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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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
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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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We got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
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We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.
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