Jeff Bezos Quotes

• I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

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• I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

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• I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’

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• If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

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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 more pioneering.

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• It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

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• Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

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• Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

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• My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

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• One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

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• Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.

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• Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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• Strip malls are history.

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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 just works.

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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, ‘why not?’

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• I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

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• If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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• Infrastructure web services had to happen.

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• It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

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• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

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Jeff Bezos (84)

Birth:	12th January, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist who is best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the world's largest online shopping retailer. Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web, as well as the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, through its Amazon Web Services arm. He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin with test flights to space which started in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. In July 2012, Bezos and his wife personally donated $2.5 million to support a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington. He is currently the second-richest person in the world.

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