The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
JEFF BEZOZIf you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.
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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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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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There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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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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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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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.
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The pain and emotional trauma caused by the racism and violence we are witnessing toward the black community has a long reach.
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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, ‘let’s be simple minded. We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. Let’s do it.
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