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.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Things never go smoothly.
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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.
Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you're going to invent, you're going to disrupt.
