“It's one thing to have a good idea, but it'a another to have confidence in a person to execute it.” — Brad Stone Confidence Copy Share Image
“he liked to say he didn’t have an exit strategy—he was building a company for the long term.” — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Gradatim Ferociter, which translates to “Step by Step, Ferociously.” — Brad Stone Step By Step Copy Share Image
“Sinegal explained the Costco model to Bezos: it was all about customer loyalty.” — Brad Stone Customer loyalty Copy Share Image
“Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.” — Brad Stone Autonomous Copy Share Image
“It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.” —Alan Kay” — Brad Stone Future Copy Share Image
“Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.” — Brad Stone Alchemists Copy Share Image
“have realized about myself that I’m very motivated by people counting on me,” he answered. “I like to be counted on.”14” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some… — Brad Stone Friends Copy Share Image
I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage. — Brad Stone Facebook Copy Share Image
“resonance. “We had a key decision to make,” he says. “Was distribution a commodity or was it a core competency?” — Brad Stone Choice Copy Share Image
“Two other technology icons, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, were adopted, and the experience is thought by some to have given each… — Brad Stone Motivation Copy Share Image
“Andy Grove, the longtime CEO of Intel, was known to be so harsh and intimidating that a subordinate once fainted during a… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies. — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in… — Brad Stone Internet Copy Share Image
Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Later Bezos recalled speaking at an all-hands meeting called to address the assault by Barnes & Noble. “Look, you should wake up… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Uber, and Airbnb to a different extent, implemented the same battle plan. Bezos is an investor in both companies and, to some… — Brad Stone Battle Copy Share Image
“What we are doing here is building a giant rocket ship, and we’re going to light the fuse. Then it’s either going… — Brad Stone Moon Copy Share Image
“Despite his famously hearty laugh and cheerful public persona, he is capable of the same kind of acerbic outbursts as Apple’s late… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning,” he told his employees. “But don’t be worried about our competitors because they… — Brad Stone Every morning Copy Share Image
“As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have… — Brad Stone Adventure Copy Share Image
We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this,” Bezos says, veering into a familiar Jeffism:… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“That summer, Harrison Miller and Bezos butted heads in front of the board of directors over the size of the bet on… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“There were several immediate reasons for the stock market’s reversal. The excesses of the dot-com boom had begun to wear on investors.… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Book publishers needed only to listen to Jeff Bezos himself to have their fears stoked. Amazon’s founder repeatedly suggested he had little… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The television episode was the foundation of another official award at Amazon, this one presented to an employee who identified an activity… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Rudeness is not cool. Defeating tiny guys is not cool. Close-following is not cool. Young is cool. Risk taking is cool. Winning… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Bezos kept pushing for more. He asked Blake to exact better terms from the smallest publishers, who would go out of business… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Book Copy Share Image
For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes. — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“When New York passed its Internet sales-tax law, Amazon’s sales in New York State dropped 10 percent over the next quarter, according… — Brad Stone Internet Copy Share Image
“He says Bezos takes a red pen to press releases, product descriptions, speeches, and shareholder letters, crossing out anything that does not… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Bezos believed that high margins justified rivals’ investments in research and development and attracted more competition, while low margins attracted customers and… — Brad Stone Investing Copy Share Image
“Whenever Jeff Bezos roamed a fulfillment center or his own Seattle headquarters, he looked for defects—flaws in the company’s systems or even… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Do I need to go down and get the certificate that says I’m CEO of the company to get you to stop… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Bezos announced that employees could no longer use such corporate crutches and would have to write their presentations in prose, in what… — Brad Stone Storytelling Copy Share Image
