100+ Jeff Bezos Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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
If 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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Business Decision Leaving Opportunity Table Work
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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Business Competitor Customer Obsess
Everything you are comes from your choices.
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Choice Come Healing Life One Liner Past
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
My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
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Bad Innovation Inspirational Time View
One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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Business Customer Entrepreneur Excitement Expectation Finding Morning Rise
One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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Business Customer Entrepreneur Excitement Expectation Finding Morning Rise
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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Amount Business Company Money Percentage
We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
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Business Growth Inspirational Success Survival
Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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Business Cost Dominate People Power Serve Utilization
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
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
We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and thy’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
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Business Customer Ideas Invention Patience Reason Stuck Success
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
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Character Expense Kindness Money
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
If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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Business Creation Failure Want
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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Business Innovation Thinking
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 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
There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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Business Discover Involvement
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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Choice Clever Gift Kindness One Liner
Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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Business Company Customer Focus Silence
It’s harder to be kind than clever.
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Clever Inspirational Kindness One Liner
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
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Against Business Change Complain Future Strategy World
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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Brain Human Intelligence Machine
I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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Business Hire Interview People Wrong

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