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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

I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Entrepreneur Minimalism Product Stock
If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Decision Future Goodness Life Regret Thinking
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Come Failure Invention Optional
There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Discover Involvement
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Done Focus Reason Stubborn
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.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Charge Company Strategy
People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Horse Love People Ride Work
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Entrepreneur Valid
Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Decision Help People Purchase Strategy
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Decision Fact Hierarchy Rule
It’s time to go back to the Moon, this time to stay.
JEFF BEZOZ

Moon Stay Time
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Customer Experience Guest Invitation Party
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
JEFF BEZOZ

Ability Business Human Internet Magic Polite
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
JEFF BEZOS

Character Expense Kindness Money
The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Customer Location Technology
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.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Customer Eventually Forever Irrelevant Need Young

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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