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718 Investor Quotes

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

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

Always Been Computers Intersection
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You want your customers to value your service.

Customers Service Value Want
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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?'

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

Because Big Customers Fan
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My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Company Every Long-Term Own
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Better Cultures Stable Very
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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.

Being Competitor Doing More
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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.

Bad Bad Time Innovate Time
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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.

Book Container Create Itself
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Important People Readers Reading
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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Novel Skeptical Will
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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.

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

Buy Day Every Negotiate
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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.

Common Counting Easy Folks
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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.

Before Big Businesses Characterized
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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.

Best Call Customer Just
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Creative Else Energy Interface
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Advance Answer Away Company
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I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Physics Princeton Specifically Study
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Make Mediocre Other People
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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Always Discovery Involved Serendipity
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Amazon Big Customer First
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

About Author Book Key
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I'm a genetic optimist.

Genetic Optimist
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Advertiser Any Mission Skeptical
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Because Behalf Customers Experiment
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

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Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Allow Beautiful Cultural Dinner
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When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Building Dynamic Entrepreneurial Explosion
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

Because Cool Mars People
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Car Data Drive Efficient
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You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

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Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Companies Great Industries Lot
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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.

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We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

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I grew up reading science fiction.

Grew Reading Science Fiction
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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