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A lot of people – and I’m jus...

A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

Jeff Bezos 238 quotes

Market leadership can transla...

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Jeff Bezos 238 quotes

We watch our competitors, lea...

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

Jeff Bezos 238 quotes

I don't buy stocks, I make st...

I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

Jeff Bezos 238 quotes

The Internet is disrupting ev...

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

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We are at the 1908 Hurley was...

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

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Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgra...

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.

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I feel like in one year it's ...

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet pi?ata.

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Invention requires a long-ter...

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

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And I still buy books at B&N,...

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

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Our alliance with Toysrus.com...

Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August.

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Good ideas will always get fu...

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

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We've got thousands of invest...

We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

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If you have a business model ...

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

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There are a whole bunch of pe...

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

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People who were right a lot o...

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

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We expect all our businesses ...

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

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We were hoping to build a sma...

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Jeff Bezos 238 quotes

It’s very important for entre...

It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

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I'm skeptical that the novel ...

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....