"The book is not really the container for……" — Jeff Bezos

"The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create."

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173 Quotes by Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos has 173 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business.…
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge…
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard…
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It…
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be…
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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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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