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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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Albuquerque
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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room
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Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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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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I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
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You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.
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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.
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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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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.
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... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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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 wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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