I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
JEFF BEZOZMarket leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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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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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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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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It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
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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.
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Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning.
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Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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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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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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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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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.
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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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If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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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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One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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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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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
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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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I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online.
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