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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
Computer Scientist
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
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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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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'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
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You don't choose your passions your passions choose you.
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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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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
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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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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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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often
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Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.
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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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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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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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