Jeff Bezos Quotes
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[In 2004] One of the things that you learn in a rural area like that is self-reliance. People do everything themselves.
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[On learning in 1994 that web usage was growing at a rate of 2,300 percent per year.] That’s what sort of set me off.
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[In March 1999] We may be the most customer-obsessed company to ever occupy planet Earth.
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[On his father.] He is the least lazy person I know.
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[On moving houses as a child.] Moves always invigorated me. There’s really something very cleansig about it. Every move is an opportunity for spring cleaning.
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[On only applying to Princeton University.] Einstein was there, for goodness sake!
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[On David Shaw] David Shaw is a very smart guy… He’s one of the few people I know who has a fully developed left brain and a fully developed right brain.
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[On competition from the giants.] Frankly, I’m more concerned about two guys in a garage.
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[In 1998] In high-growth arenas, speed is essential and a sense of urgency becomes your most valuable asset.
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Work hard, have fun, and make history. Wake up petrified and afraid every morning. I know we can lose it all. It’s not a fear. It’s a fact.
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Copying somebody else’s strategy does not work on the Internet. You need to have a twist.
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I think it’s easier to fool yourself if it’s not measurable.
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For two years, people have been telling me that everything that could be invented has been invented. This is insane.
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People get trapped within boundaries…
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The power of an idea to change the world.
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I always say there'll be thousands of winners. I believe it.
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I believe that all startup companies need a huge amount of luck.
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What we want to do is not just have Amazon.com known for customer service and customer experience, but to raise the worldwide bar on these things. I think we can do it, but it's a 20-year kind of goal.
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One of the best ways to provide value to customers is by utilizing the organic forces that the Internet makes possible…
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If we're going to sell something, we should be selling it at a competitive price - or we should just stop selling it.
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I don't claim Amazon.com is a lasting company yet. I claim we're in a leadership position and have the resources and the team to build a lasting company.
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You're going to have at least twice as many big winners online as in the physical world, because new business models are possible.
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There's no rest for the weary…
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Even the most durable competitive advantages fade with time if you don't replace them with new advantages. There has never been any company I know of where that hasn't been true. One of the best durable advantages is a good consumer brand. History has shown this to be true. Some of the most persistent companies are those with the strongest consumer brands, like Coca-Cola.
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If your brand is based exclusively on price, you're in a fragile position, but if your brand is about great prices and great service and great selection, that is a much better position.
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I believe brands that stand for abstract concepts are more durable and more robust than brands that stand for something more concrete.
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A company's brand is a lot like a person's reputation.
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We can't do ordinary things in ordinary ways.
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There really is a problem with software business-method patents, and I don't think it's a small problem.
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Oprah Winfrey. She is the most inspiring person I've ever met.
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[On Oprah Winfrey] Live your life, use your life. These are things that she really, really believes.
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A strong planning process is actually very empowering and allows for decentralization because everybody is moving in the same direction.
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If you ever get a hold of the magic bullet, call me.
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Our core job is to help people make purchases…
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I think it’s always hard to know why you’re drawn to a particular thing.
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[In January 2013] One of the things that’s very hard to believe when you’re 22 or 23 years old is that you don’t already know everything. People learn more and more as they get older. You seem to realize that you know less and less every year that goes by. I can only imagine that by the time I am 70 [years old] I will realize that I know nothing.
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[If someone wants to start a company.] The first thing you should do – is you should write a business plan… Now the business plan won’t survive it’s first encounters with reality. It will always be different, the reality will not be the plan. But the discipline of the plan forces you to think through some of the issues, and to help you get mentally comfortable in the space.
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[On his belief that there was a 70% chance of Amazon originally failing so that relieved the initial fear of failure.] I don’t have any doubt about us likely to fail, that’s the likely outcome.
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[On his parents investing a major part of their life savings in Amazon.] My dad’s first question was ‘What’s the Internet?’
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I was always a great fan of science fiction…
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