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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.

Jeff Bezos

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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Business Customer Innovation Invention Start Stone Work
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
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Business Invention Nature Time Understand Want
Everything you are comes from your choices.
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Choice Come Healing Life One Liner Past
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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Choose Force Interest Mistake Passion People Try
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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Experiment Failure Function Success
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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Chase Entrepreneur Motivational Passion Passionate
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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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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Business Different Encounter Failure Planning Reality Success Survive
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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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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Business Customer Each Other Experience Motivational Mouth Powerful
Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
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Business Customer Satisfaction Win
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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Against Business Experiment Flexible Give Up Problem Solution Stubborn
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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Business Competitor Customer Obsess
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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Build Business People Service Worth
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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Business Customer Internet Physical World
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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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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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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