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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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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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If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
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I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
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You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you
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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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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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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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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
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Not the outcome any of us wanted.
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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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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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