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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
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Common
Counting
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
Jeff Bezos
Cost
Estate
Key
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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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Washington Irving
Everything
Fountain
Gladness
Heart
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
Back
Become
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
Jeff Bezos
Make
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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Jeff Bezos
Always
Discovery
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
Affections
History
Life
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Washington Irving
Ability
Blaming
Down
Easiest
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Washington Irving
Age
Feeling
Matter
Years
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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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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Above
Great
Great Minds
Little
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
Almost
Create
Disadvantage
Every
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving
Between
Come
Empty
End
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.
Jeff Bezos
About
Author
Book
Key
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I'm a genetic optimist.
Jeff Bezos
Genetic
Optimist
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
Jeff Bezos
Advertiser
Any
Mission
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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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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Age
Constant
Grows
Never
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving
Affliction
Brood
Cherish
Consider
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
Jeff Bezos
Because
Cool
Mars
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving
About
Communion
Contact
Dignity
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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
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.
Jeff Bezos
Anonymous
Arrange
Benefit
Combined
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Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
Jeff Bezos
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.
Jeff Bezos
Further
Gigantic
Little
Lottery
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Better
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Leave
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving
Always
Among
Away
Clouds
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving
Abroad
Apt
Discipline
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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.
Jeff Bezos
Build
Humans
Interesting
Live
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Washington Irving
Jealousy
Never
Regard
Strong
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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'
Jeff Bezos
Blue
Motto
Origin
Our
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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
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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
Improving
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Back
Flow
Heart
Lost
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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.
Jeff Bezos
About
Ask
Change
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The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff Bezos
Dynamic
Figure
How
Out
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Washington Irving
Great
Great Minds
Minds
Others
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
Dead
Effect
Elevate
Mind
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving
Delights
Fills
Majesty
Noble
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
Rafael Nadal
End
Important
Life
Match
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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
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Contrition
Deep
Eloquently
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
Rafael Nadal
Always
Because
Just
Lose
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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
Harm
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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
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