Jeff Bezos Quotes
200 Jeff Bezos Quotes (Jeffrey Preston Bezos, Amazon)
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Work hard, have fun, make history.
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Build yourself a great story.
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Obstacles are only obstacles if you think they’re obstacles. Otherwise, they’re opportunities.
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There really aren’t any problems without solutions.
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Failure is an essential component of innovation.
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You can’t really do the right thing for customers if you’re short-term oriented.
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If you’re going to put your back into reinventing a 500-year-old industry, some folks are going to get ornery.
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It’s not just a business for us, it’s a mission for us. And missionaries build better products.
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Trust is hard-earned, easily lost.
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In the end, we are our choices.
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If you feel you will one day regret not taking a chance, then take that chance.
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Even the most durable competitive advantages fade with time if you don't replace them with new advantages.
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One of the best durable advantages is a good consumer brand. History has shown this to be true.
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[In January 2013] One of the things that’s very hard to believe when you’re 22 or 23 years old is that you don’t already know everything.
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You can invent your way out of any box if you believe that you can.
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You can’t ask for trust, you just have to do it the hard way, one step at a time.
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Do something you’re very passionate about, and don’t try to chase what is kind of the ‘hot passion’ of the day.
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People don’t want gadgets… they want services.
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[In July 2010] Our mission is earth’s most customer-centric company.
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If you’re going to invent new things you’ve also got to be able - this goes along with long-term orientation, you’ve got to be able to endure a lot of criticism.
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Nobody else has to fail for us to do well.
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[In July 2010] Sometimes I think we try to solve problems before we understand the problem.
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I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing… I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
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I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice.
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To be nine times bigger than your nearest competitor, you actually only have to be 10 percent better.
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Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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We are swinging for the fences at Amazon. You should expect mistakes.
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You don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every time.
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Communication is not a fundamental good - it's a necessary evil.
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The rate of change is getting faster and faster.
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Stress comes from ignoring something that you shouldn’t be ignoring.
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Nobody has a right to happiness. You should have a right to pursue it.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products.
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There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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That’s how you earn trust. Make a hard promise. Keep it.
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[In June 2010] I just happen to think the exploration and inventing strategy is more fun.
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We’ve made a lot of mistakes…
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Think long term.
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It’s always day one. There’s always more invention in the future. There’s always more customer innovation. New ways to obsess over customers.
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It’s very important when you’re doing something new, not to reinvent the wheel on stuff where you’re not actually creating any new value.
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