Tag: Jeff Bezos
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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
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What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
Jeff Bezos
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One of the things that I’m very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we’re at today with space launch is that we don’t get to practice enough.
Jeff Bezos
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Strip malls are history.
Jeff Bezos
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The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.
Jeff Bezos
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My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
Jeff Bezos
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I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
Jeff Bezos
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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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.
Jeff Bezos