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All Quotes Collection
"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
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"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."
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"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
Want,
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"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
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"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
Want,
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"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
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"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward."
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"The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home."
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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
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"But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908."
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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
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"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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"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
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"In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord."
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"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
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"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."
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"Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana."
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"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."
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"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
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"In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor."
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"Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power."
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"If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order."
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"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts."
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"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."
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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."
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"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."
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"The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."
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"You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make."
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"Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded."
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
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