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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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"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."

"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."

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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."

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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