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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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"When you are fully present and engaged in your workplace, you will demonstrate that you care about the success of your organization, are a team player, have a can-do attitude, and will go the extra mile to fulfill and exceed expectations."
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"It is good to work for your living."
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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."
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"Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place."
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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
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"You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk."
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized."
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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

"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

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
Experience

"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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"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
Want

"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

"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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"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
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