“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
“Bezos had seemingly made up his mind that he was no longer going to indulge in financial maneuvering as a way to… — Brad Stone Business plan Copy Share Image
“In the copy he brought to Kathryn Dalzell, he had underlined one particular passage in which Walton described borrowing the best ideas… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“To adjudicate the matter, he turned to a Silicon Valley legend, a former Columbia University football coach named Bill Campbell.” — Brad Stone Football coach Copy Share Image
“from his company. After the stock market crash in 2000, Amazon went through two rounds of layoffs. But Bezos didn’t want to… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“When you are in the thick of things, you can get confused by small stuff,” Bezos said a few years later. “I… — Brad Stone Small stuff Copy Share Image
Certainly some hosts on Airbnb are opening up their spare bedrooms to meet new people; and some drivers use Uber to carpool… — Brad Stone Community Copy Share Image
“great companies fail not because they want to avoid disruptive change but because they are reluctant to embrace promising new markets that… — Brad Stone Business 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 Business Copy Share Image
“The junior executives recommended a variety of different techniques to foster cross-group dialogue and afterward seemed proud of their own ingenuity. Then… — Brad Stone Aha moment 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
“Later Bezos recalled speaking at an all-hands meeting called to address the assault by Barnes & Noble. “Look, you should wake up… — Brad Stone Every morning Copy Share Image
“He announced his intentions to build a spaceport by walking into the office of a local newspaper, the Van Horn Advocate, and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were… — Brad Stone Apple Copy Share Image
I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but… — Brad Stone Anything Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know Jeff Bezos but I just remember being blown away by the fact that he was there with his sleeves… — Brad Stone Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Until you prove yourself, modeling the behavior of iconoclasts is dangerous. — Brad Stone Behavior 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 Copy Share Image
“When someone resigns, he is asked to hand in all that equipment—including the backpack.” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Steady progress toward seemingly impossible goals will win the day. Setbacks are temporary. Naysayers are best ignored.” — Brad Stone Failure Copy Share Image
“Joy was substance over optics,” he said. “Joy was a long-term thinker. Joy was bold.” — Brad Stone Joy Copy Share Image
“Usenet bulletin-board posting, August 21, 1994: Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must… — Brad Stone Business 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
