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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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You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
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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 don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
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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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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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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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The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail you have to be willing to think long term and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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Ebooks had to happen.
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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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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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We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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