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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
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You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
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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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For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
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Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.
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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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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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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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Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day.
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We were hoping to build a small profitable company and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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Word of mouth is very powerful.
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There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.
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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
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