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You don't choose your passions your passions choose you.

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.
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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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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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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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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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I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
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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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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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