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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
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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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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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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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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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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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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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not
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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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The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
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If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
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