“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
“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
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary...… — Brad Stone Always 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
“The electronics effort faced even greater challenges. To launch that category, David Risher tapped a Dartmouth alum named Chris Payne who had… — Brad Stone Business 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 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 Business Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and… — Brad Stone Character Copy Share Image
“The book clearly resonated with Amazon’s founder. On the last page, a section completed a few weeks before his death, Walton wrote:… — Brad Stone Books Copy Share Image
Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies. — Brad Stone Comfortable Copy Share Image
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to… — Brad Stone Communication 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 Empowering others Copy Share Image
I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare. — Brad Stone Customer Copy Share Image
“Naturally, some of the reviews were negative. In speeches, Bezos later recalled getting an angry letter from an executive at a book… — Brad Stone Books Copy Share Image
“Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner.” — Brad Stone Number-one Copy Share Image
The one thing that Airbnb had was, Brian and Joe were designers, and they did a great job. They also had Nate… — Brad Stone Great Copy Share Image
I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts.… — Brad Stone Big Copy Share Image
“When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of… — Brad Stone Commencement speech 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
There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on… — Brad Stone Monopoly Copy Share Image
“Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s The Goal, published in… — Brad Stone Books Copy Share Image
