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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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Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.
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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
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Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
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Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August.
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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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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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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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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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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
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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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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.
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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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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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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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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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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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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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