Jeff Bezos Quotes - Page 5

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• Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

  Jeff Bezos

  Kindness, Choices, Cleverness

  "Billionaire Jeff Bezos says being smart isn't enough—you also need this to be successful" by Ruth Umoh, www.cnbc.com. September 21, 2017.

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• Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

  Jeff Bezos

  Children, July, Independence

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• Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Understanding, Progress

  "Brought to book" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2001.

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• In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

  Jeff Bezos

  Motivation, Educational, World

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• What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

  Jeff Bezos

  Innovation, Amazon, Want

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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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Important, Unhappy, Needs

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

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• My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Clever, Grandfather

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Models, Rely

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• If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

  Jeff Bezos

  Long, Interest, Term

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Opportunity, Two, Innovation

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• Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

  Jeff Bezos

  Wall, Regret, Missing

  "The Inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

  Jeff Bezos

  Able, Easy, Hard

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• If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

  Jeff Bezos

  Long, Internet, Term

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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.”

  Jeff Bezos

  Regret, Numbers, Decision

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

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• You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

  Jeff Bezos

  Passion, Young Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

  Jeff Bezos

  Doe, Company, Brands

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• I like to be counted on.

  Jeff Bezos

  "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon". Book by Brad Stone, October 15, 2013.

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• We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Incentives, Kind

  "Working At Amazon: No Free Food, And A Low Salary" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 16, 2012.

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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

  Decision, Leader, Analysis

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• The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Home, Vacation

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• We change our tools and then our tools change us.

  Jeff Bezos

  Tools

  "Exclusive: Our own Len Edgerly interviews Amazon’s Jeff Bezos live in the KND Kindle Chronicles Interview". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Your margin is my opportunity.

  Jeff Bezos

  Opportunity, Margins

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• You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Unique, Interesting, Important

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• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Marketing, Balance, Energy

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• Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Powerful, Mouths, Word Of Mouth

  "Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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