"For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!"
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Jeff Bezos quotes (page 11 of 12)
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"I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg."
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"It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times."
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"I like to be counted on."
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"I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert."
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"Ebooks had to happen."
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"Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing."
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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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"Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August."
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"I went to Princeton specifically to study physics."
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"I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata."
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"For people who are readers, reading is important to them."
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"You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not"
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"You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations."
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"My own view is that every company requires a long-term view."
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"And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores."
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"Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want."
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"No, communication is terrible!"
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"I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel."
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"Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere."
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