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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
Jeff Preston Bezos
Jeffrey Preston ''Jeff'' Bezos
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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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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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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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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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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Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
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I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.
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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
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If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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