Jeff Bezos Quotes

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want…
• If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.
• There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how…
• But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are.…
• What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to…
• When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story,…
• It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
• You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
• We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
• Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
• We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
• We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.
• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is…
• Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
• E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
• We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
• If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
• The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
• Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

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