23 Great Jeff Bezos Quotes That Will Inspire You To Think Big

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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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.

Change Time

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E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

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I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

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Work Hard, have fun, make history

History

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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.

You Never

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Your margin is my opportunity

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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

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We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

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If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

You

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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

You Like Trying

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The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Death Past

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In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

You Time

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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

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Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.

Yourself

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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

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No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

Business

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As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you’re going to invent, you’re going to disrupt.

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One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

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