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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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You don't choose your passions your passions choose you.
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
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Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
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Are you lazy or just incompetent?
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You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you
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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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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
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The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
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