Jeff Bezos Quotes

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• There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your…
• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If…
• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
• On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be…
• People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they…
• Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how…
• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they…
• If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you…
• In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
• If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
• In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In…
• We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent.…
• I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even…
• Obsess about customers, not competitors.
• If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity…
• If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.
• If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have…
• If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
• One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose…
• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they…

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