Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
JEFF BEZOZOur biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online.
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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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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
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Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
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There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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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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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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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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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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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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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
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I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.
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