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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.

Jeff Bezos

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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Capital Investment Leadership Market Revenue
What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
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Business DAngryous Evolve One Liner
Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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Bed Early Goodness Inspirational Morning Positive Wake Up
There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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Business Discover Involvement
Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
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Business Customer Satisfaction Win
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.
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Business Customer Eventually Forever Irrelevant Need Young
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
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Business Firm Grasp Obvious Time
Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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Brand Business Company
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
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Business Failure Motivational Regret Success
People don’t want gadgets, they want services.
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Business Gadget People Service Want
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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Business Done Focus Reason Stubborn
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
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Book Love Narrative Reading Story World
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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Business Customer Feature Judgement Mind Simplicity
We got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.
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Amazing Gratitude Lucky Mentor Parents Role Model
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.
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Business Customer Experience Guest Invitation Party
Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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Culture Evolve History People Planning

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