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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 greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."
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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in 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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"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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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
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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."
Gold
"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."
Work
"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
"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
"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
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
Business
"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
Want
"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."
Hair
"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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