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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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Jeffrey Preston ''Jeff'' Bezos
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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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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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For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
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Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
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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 think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
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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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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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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 do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
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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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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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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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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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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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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
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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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