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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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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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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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"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."
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"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."
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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
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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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"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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"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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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
Experience
"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
Want
"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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"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
"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
Want
"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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