Jeff Bezos Quotes
born 1964 United States
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Also known as: Your margin is my opportunity
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.
We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them, … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
AI is real and will change every industry. We are living in a golden age, and there is reason to be optimistic. There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur and start a start-up.
You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way.
The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.
Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.
Your margin is my opportunity.
"The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons was a discovery...It's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions. They're discoveries."
"And I do like group invention. I think there's really nothing more fun than sitting at a whiteboard with a group of smart people and spitballing and coming up with new ideas and objections to those ideas, and then solutions to the objections and going back and forth."
The top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the revenue. The bottom half pay only 3%. We have already, and I think it should be zero.
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. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too..