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1439 Businessman Quotes

The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

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I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

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

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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

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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.

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

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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 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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What's dangerous is not to evolve.

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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

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I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

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You want your customers to value your service.

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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

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I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

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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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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

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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.

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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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I think the definition of a book is changing.

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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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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

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I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

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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.

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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

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