Jeff Bezos quotes - page 3

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It's the lessons you learn along the way. (Jeff Bezos)
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
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I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
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If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
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Ebooks had to happen.
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I'm a genetic optimist.
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The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space. (Jeff Bezos)
Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.
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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
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I grew up reading science fiction.
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Strip malls are history.
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We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
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You want your customers to value your service.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. (Jeff Bezos)
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
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