Jeff Bezos

(1964–) · American Entrepreneur

American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

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Jeff Bezos

(1964–) · American Entrepreneur

American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'
I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
I think the definition of a book is changing.

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