Jeff Bezos Quotes - Page 3

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• The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

  Jeff Bezos

  Educational, Persistence, Needs

  "Managing Human Resources". Book by Susan Jackson, p. 6, June 16, 2011.

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• I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Interviews, Wrong Person

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• If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Educational, Waiting

  "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

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  Horse, People, Riding

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• In the end, we are our choices.

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  Choices, Ends, Our Choices

  "2010 Baccalaureate Remarks". Commencement speech at Princeton University, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

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• The people who are right a lot often change their minds.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Mind

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• Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

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  Want, Invention, All Time

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• Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

  Jeff Bezos

  Invention, Optional, Parcel

  "The best business advice from Jeff Bezos" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2016.

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• When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

  Jeff Bezos

  Keys, Long, People

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• It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

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  Inspirational, Going To Work, Experiments

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

  Jeff Bezos

  Want, Failing, Willing

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• Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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  What Matters, Dollars, Percentages

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• If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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  Answers, Company, Knows

  "Jeff Bezos", www.esquire.com. September 25, 2008.

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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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Knowing, Expectations

  "Article of Faith: If people read more, that is a better world". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.

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• My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

  Jeff Bezos

  Views, Bad Times

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• A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

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  Entrepreneur, Lasts, Shiny Things

  "Jeff Bezos owns the web in more ways than you think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teacher, Attitude, Real

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

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  Stubborn, Flexible, Inventing

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• I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.

  Jeff Bezos

  Customers

  "Our job is to adapt to rules, India no different: Bezos". Interview with N. Madhavan and Gaurav Choudhury, www.hindustantimes.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Pay, Social Media

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• Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

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  Passion, Trying, Hot

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

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  Dark, Pioneers, Sides

  "Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. December 1, 2013.

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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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  Innovation, Needs, Failing

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• Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

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  Business, Winning, People

  "Amazon CEO takes long view". Interview with Byron Acohido, www.usatoday.com. July 5, 2005.

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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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Technology, Years

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