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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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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation."
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"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
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"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."
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"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."
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"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."
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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
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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."
Business
"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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"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
Want
"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
Experience
"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."
Business
"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
Want
"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."
Home
"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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"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."
Work
"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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