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Biography: Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquer... more Biography: Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he graduated from Princeton University in 1986. In 1994, he launched Amazon, which revolutionized e-commerce. Bezos also founded Blue Origin, a space exploration company, and owns The Washington Post. less

"If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."

Tags: Success, Personal development, Courage, Innovation, Exploration

"To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable."

Tags: Motivation, Self-improvement, Resilience, Determination, Innovation

"One common pitfall for large organizations – one that hurts speed and inventiveness – is 'one-size-fits-all' decision making...The end result of this is slowness, unthoughtful risk aversion, failure to experiment sufficiently, and consequently diminished i"

Tags: Decision making, Business strategy, Business innovation, Risk aversion

"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. You do something that you genuinely believe in, that you have conviction about, but for a long period of time, well-meaning people may criticize that effort. When you receive criticism from we"

Tags: Determination, Innovation, Belief, Persistence, Endurance

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness."

Tags: Creativity, Growth, Personal development, Innovation, Productivity

"There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery."

Tags: Exploration, Discovery, Creative process, Serendipity, Invention

"Market research doesn't help. If you had gone to a customer in 2013 and said, 'would you like a black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen about the size of a Pringles can that you can talk to and ask questions, that also turns on your lights and plays musi"

Tags: Innovation, Product development, User experience, Consumer behavior, Customer feedback

"We recently greenlit a particular Amazon Studios original. I told the team my view: debatable whether it would be interesting enough, complicated to produce, the business terms aren’t that good, and we have lots of other opportunities. They had a completel"

Tags: Risk management, Entertainment industry, Content production, Production challenges

"Day 2 companies make high-quality decisions, but they make high-quality decisions slowly. To keep the energy and dynamism of Day 1, you have to somehow make high-quality, high-velocity decisions."

Tags: Productivity, Decision making, Efficiency, Business strategy, Strategic planning

"We are comfortable planting seeds and waiting for them to grow into trees."

Tags: Growth, Personal development, Nature, Patience, Life journey

"Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway."

Tags: Business strategy, Risk taking, Sales strategy, Performance measurement

"If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned."

Tags: Business strategy, Investment strategy, Business philosophy, Corporate governance, Customer centricity

"If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away."

Tags: Innovation, Growth mindset, Entrepreneurship, Adaptability, Business strategy

"All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's."

Tags: Innovation, Adaptability, Business strategy, Business growth, Target audience

"Your margin is my opportunity."

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Competition, Business strategy, Competitive advantage, Economic strategy

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