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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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"Don't just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most."
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Personal Development
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
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Personal Development
"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."
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Personal Development
"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."
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Personal Development
"When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add."
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Personal Development
"Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well."
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Personal Development
"If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman."
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Personal Development
"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
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Personal Development
"Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results."
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Personal Development
"Corporate rule number 7, survival of the fittest spoon. Those who follow reach nowhere."
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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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"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
"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
"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
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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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"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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"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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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
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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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