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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
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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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There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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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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One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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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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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.
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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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Strip malls are history.
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We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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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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Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
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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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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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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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