Jeff Bezos Quotes - Page 7

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• One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

  Jeff Bezos

  Innovation, Amazon, Analogies

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 01, 1999.

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• I think if people read more, that is a better world.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, People, World

  "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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• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors". www.geekwire.com. September 17, 2013.

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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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• E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mail, Genes, Ability

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• One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

  Jeff Bezos

  Online, Stores, Obvious

  "Book Learning". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 2009.

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• Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

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  Amazon, Want, Strive

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• I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

  Jeff Bezos

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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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• 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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• We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

  Jeff Bezos

  Risk, Pioneers, Management

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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I love my life. I love being an inventor.

  Jeff Bezos

  Love Is, Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

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  Done, Funny Business, Company

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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

  Jeff Bezos

  Unique, Amazon, Lasts

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• The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

  Jeff Bezos

  Brain, Machines, Patterns

  Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

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  Long, Misunderstood, Invention

  Aspen Institute’s 2009 Annual Awards Dinner in New York City speech, www.theatlantic.com. 2009.

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• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

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  Home, Thinking, Light

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• There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

  Jeff Bezos

  Discovery, Serendipity, Involved

  "dot.conqueror" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2002.

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• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stronger, Velocity, Return

  "A sign outside Amazon's new Australian warehouse is a reminder of how Jeff Bezos crushes his rivals" by Tony Yoo, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 2, 2017.

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• There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.

  Jeff Bezos

  Successful, People, Way

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• You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

  Jeff Bezos

  Passion

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• There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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  Skills, Two, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

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  Book, Vision, Language

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• You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

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  World, Narrative, Stories

  "'We Start With the Customer and We Work Backward'". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.slate.com. December 24, 2009.

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