"I've not seen an effective manager or leader……" — Jeff Bezos
"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 get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected."
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173 Quotes by Jeff Bezos
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business.…
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge…
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard…
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
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I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It…
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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be…
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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is,…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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