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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!

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.
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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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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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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
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If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
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You don't choose your passions your passions choose you.
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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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Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.
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I love my life. I love being an inventor.
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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
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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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Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.
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The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”
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But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
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If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
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Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
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Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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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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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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