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

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" Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable. "

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

" Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. "

" For people who are readers, reading is important to them. "

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" The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. "

" 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. "

" I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. "

" In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' "

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" What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. "

" There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. "

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" I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways. "

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

" We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem. "

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" 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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" The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works. "

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