"Your margin is my opportunity."
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"If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model."
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"To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable."
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"I love my life. I love being an inventor."
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"Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times."
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"You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three."
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"I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected."
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"I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers."
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"Are you lazy or just incompetent?"
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"I think if people read more, that is a better world."
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"Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds."
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"I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online."
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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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"You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you"
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"Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes."
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"I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways."
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"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."
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"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."
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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."
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"I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate."
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