Performance review Quote by Brad Stone

“There was little science to Amazon’s earliest distribution methods. The company held no inventory itself at first. When a customer bought a book, Amazon…

— Brad Stone

“They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership,…

— Brad Stone

“In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations,” says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera, a British…

— Brad Stone

“The first week after the official launch, they took $12,000 in orders and shipped $846 worth of books, according to Eric Dillon, one of…

— Brad Stone

“Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning,” he told his employees. “But don’t be worried about our competitors because they ' re…

— Brad Stone

“point of view is worth 80 IQ points”—a”

— Brad Stone

“Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary, and throughout…

— Brad Stone

We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world…

— Brad Stone

“The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of…

— Brad Stone

“Apple’s founder reportedly fired employees in the elevator and screamed at underperforming executives. Perhaps there is something endemic in the fast-paced technology business that…

— Brad Stone

“Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator’s Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry”

— Brad Stone

“Eric Benson took about two weeks to construct a preliminary version that grouped together customers who had similar purchasing histories and then found books…

— Brad Stone