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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
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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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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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
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There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.
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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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Word of mouth is very powerful.
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
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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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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
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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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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
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But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
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Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.
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If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.
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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room
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