Jeff Bezos Quotes

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• We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we…
• We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
• The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
• Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
• When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing.…
• I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of…
• Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
• One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a…
• If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
• We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
• You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at…
• It's harder to be kind than clever
• You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where…
• If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
• Your margin is my opportunity.
• We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
• We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
• I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying…
• I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your…
• Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for…

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