Jeff Bezos quotes - page 2

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' (Jeff Bezos)
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
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Infrastructure web services had to happen.
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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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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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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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. (Jeff Bezos)
For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
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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. (Jeff Bezos)
It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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