“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 Business Copy Share Image
“Color-coded maps were widely distributed to employees at headquarters in Seattle. Travel to green states like Michigan was okay, but orange states… — Brad Stone Travel 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
“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 Business 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
“Bezos kept pushing for more. He asked Blake to exact better terms from the smallest publishers, who would go out of business… — Brad Stone Amazon 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 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 Business model 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 Steve Job 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
Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to… — Brad Stone Donald trump Copy Share Image
“Gradatim Ferociter, which translates to “Step by Step, Ferociously.” — Brad Stone Step By Step Copy Share Image
“If somebody else can sell it cheaper than us, we should let them and figure out how they are able to do… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized… — Brad Stone Existence Copy Share Image
