Jeff Bezos Quotes - Page 5

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• Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

  Jeff Bezos

  Optimistic, Vigilant, Sense Of Urgency

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• What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

  Jeff Bezos

  Innovation, Amazon, Want

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• You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.

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  Important, Unhappy, Needs

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

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  Fun, Team, Counting

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". "The Academy of Achievement" Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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

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  Views, Bad Times

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• There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

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  Shopping, People, Online

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2002.

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• Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Two, Innovation

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• Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

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  Passion, Engineering, Years

  "Amazon's Jeff Bezos Discovers Historic Apollo 11 Rocket Engines at the Bottom of the Sea". www.theatlantic.com. March 28, 2012.

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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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  Real, Keys, Cost

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

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  Motivation, Forever, Growth

  "Bezos courts Washington Post editors, reporters" by Steven Mufson, www.washingtonpost.com. September 4, 2013.

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• 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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  Communication, Reality, Leader

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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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  Motivation, Common, Easy

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. May 14, 2001.

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• There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

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  Ideas, People, Stuff

  "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon". Book by Brad Stone, 2013.

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• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

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  Marketing, Balance, Energy

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• You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

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  Unique, Interesting, Important

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• It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

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  Believe, Writing, Self

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• I never worked on the school newspaper.

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  School, Newspapers

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• The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

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  Business, Home, Vacation

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

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  Kindness, Choices, Cleverness

  "Billionaire Jeff Bezos says being smart isn't enough—you also need this to be successful" by Ruth Umoh, www.cnbc.com. September 21, 2017.

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• Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

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  Doe, Company, Brands

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• On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

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  Two, Variables, Size

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. March 26, 2001.

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• You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

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  Passion, Young Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. October 27, 2016.

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• We change our tools and then our tools change us.

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  Tools

  "Exclusive: Our own Len Edgerly interviews Amazon’s Jeff Bezos live in the KND Kindle Chronicles Interview". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.

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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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  Online, Stores, Obvious

  "Book Learning". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 2009.

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• You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

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  Simple, Want, Simple Things

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