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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform
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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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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
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Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
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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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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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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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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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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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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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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
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Everything you are comes from your choices.
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