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.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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.
We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Strip malls are history.
I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
Ebooks had to happen.
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

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