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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Albuquerque
New Mexico
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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.
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The people who are right a lot often change their minds.
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Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.
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Word of mouth is very powerful.
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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
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One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.
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If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
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When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.
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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
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Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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Your margin is my opportunity.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often
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We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
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Everything you are comes from your choices.
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