“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
“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 Copy Share Image
Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business. — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The Kindle wasn’t an overnight success, of course, but an avalanche of publicity and its prominent placement at the top of the… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“All new hires had to directly improve the outcome of the company. He wanted doers—engineers, developers, perhaps merchandise buyers, but not managers.… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Drawing on Collins’s concept of a flywheel, or self-reinforcing loop, Bezos and his lieutenants sketched their own virtuous cycle, which they believed… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“There was little science to Amazon’s earliest distribution methods. The company held no inventory itself at first. When a customer bought a book, Amazon… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership,… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations,” says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera, a British… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The first week after the official launch, they took $12,000 in orders and shipped $846 worth of books, according to Eric Dillon, one of… — 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 ` re… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary, and throughout… — Brad Stone 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 the world… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Apple’s founder reportedly fired employees in the elevator and screamed at underperforming executives. Perhaps there is something endemic in the fast-paced technology business that… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator’s Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Eric Benson took about two weeks to construct a preliminary version that grouped together customers who had similar purchasing histories and then found books… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
