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Jeff Bezos


American
January 12, 1964
Businessman
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Ebooks had to happen.


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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.


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I think the definition of a book is changing.


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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.


Jeff Bezos
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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.


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


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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.


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


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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
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I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
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But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
Jeff Bezos
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
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