"Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life."
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"Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient."
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"Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan."
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"In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running."
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"Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital."
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"I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person."
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"Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency."
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"Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win."
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"The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy."
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"If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right."
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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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"Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful."
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"Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good."
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"If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details."
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"Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
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"Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard."
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"You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."
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"When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer."
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"One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting."
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"If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail."
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