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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
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I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
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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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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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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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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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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
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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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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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You don't choose your passions your passions choose you.
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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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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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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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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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 three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
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