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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.
Jeff Bezos
Actual
Actually
Always
Amount
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Jeff Bezos
Buy
Day
Every
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Best
Call
Customer
Just
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
Jeff Bezos
Creative
Else
Energy
Interface
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Jeff Bezos
Advance
Answer
Away
Company
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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
Jeff Bezos
About
Exchanges
Know
Meaningful
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Washington Irving
Ability
Blaming
Down
Easiest
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington Irving
Doing
Greatest
Growing
Learning
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HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Princess Diana
HIV
Does
Not
People
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Because
Behalf
Customers
Experiment
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
Adversity
Broad
Dark
Daylight
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Against
Always
Around
Because
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
Hero
His
Idol
Our
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Aging
Base
Become
Constantly
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Allow
Beautiful
Cultural
Dinner
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Car
Data
Drive
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.
Jeff Bezos
Abandon
Altogether
Anyway
Back
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.
Jeff Bezos
Cannot
Company
Dorm
Giant
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.
Jeff Bezos
Commercial
Enterprise
Government
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
Because
Down
Even
Hard
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal
Boring
Focus
Just
Out
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
Course
Effected
Enemy
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
Rafael Nadal
Changed
Doing
Good
Illusion
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Washington Irving
Doubted
Eloquence
Enthusiasm
Indeed
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
Sam Elliott
About
Being
Dad
Four
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
Sam Elliott
Like
Nine
Since
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
Sam Elliott
Goes
Great
Known
Sam
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
Sam Elliott
Actor
Been
Boy
Career
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
Sam Elliott
About
Actor
Any
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
Sam Elliott
Anything
Film
First
Go
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
Sam Elliott
Actor
Better
Bridges
Even
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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
Sam Elliott
Also
Always
Anything
Change
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I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.
Sam Elliott
About
Comedians
Cross
I Think
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Sam Elliott
Done
Fact
Job
Money
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.
Sam Elliott
Basically
Been
Done
Films
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I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.
Sam Elliott
Agent
Around
Bushes
Business
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Less
Men
Ought
Than
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Business
Clearly
Distance
Hand
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
Done
Flowing
Good
Good Man
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
Ambition
Boredom
Die
Exhaustion
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I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.
Sam Elliott
Business
Cement
Concrete
Condition
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.
Sam Elliott
About
Actor
Any
Being
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Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.
Sam Elliott
Bad
Care
Certainly
Don't Care
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
Believe
Collective
Ignorance
Individual
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
Against
Anything
Deliberately
Deserve
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Books
Done
Lying
Magic
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You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.
Tom Brady
Bad
Believe
Doing
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Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don't know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.
Tom Brady
Action
Athlete
Better
Consequence
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My wife doesn't let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.
Tom Brady
Anyone
Bench
House
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I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.
Tom Brady
Desire
Eaten
Life
My Life
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