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" I'm a genetic optimist. "
Jeff Bezos
Genetic
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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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" 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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" Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location. "
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" Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children. "
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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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" For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. "
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" A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. "
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" The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude. "
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World
My Life
Life
" 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 key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. "
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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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Fan
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" Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. "
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Short
Hang
" I think the definition of a book is changing. "
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" What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. "
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" Infrastructure web services had to happen. "
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Happen
Infrastructure
Web
" Ebooks had to happen. "
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Had
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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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Important
Positive
Business
" For people who are readers, reading is important to them. "
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Them
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" There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. "
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You
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" 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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Ready
Light
Home
" I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. "
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Use
Somebody
Energy
" Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. "
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Want
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Anything
" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "
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" You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations. "
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Going
" If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. "
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" If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. "
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Know
" 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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Two
" You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. "
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" I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space. "
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Won
Push
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