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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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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.
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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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I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
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We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.
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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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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
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We were hoping to build a small profitable company and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
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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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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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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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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 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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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 are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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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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