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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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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 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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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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You don't choose your passions your passions choose you.
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
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Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.
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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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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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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
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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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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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I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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