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We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos
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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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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
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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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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
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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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Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
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What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
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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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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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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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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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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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You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.
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