93 ordspråk av Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
We did a lot this quarter. For the rest of 1999 we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.
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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 feel strongly that copyright holders should get to make these decisions.
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We get to move more units across that same fixed-cost structure. So it does help our business and help customers at the same time,
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We have for five years now declined to predict when Amazon.com might be profitable ... and we are finally answering that question.
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We have had so many discussions with so many different publishers that it isn't practical to keep it under wraps, ... Too many people know about it.
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We invite authors to communicate with their readers in a way that hasn't before been possible. Amazon Connect brings the author's message to the reader instead of waiting for the reader to find the message.
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We lowered prices so significantly over the last 15 months, there have been five significant price reductions,
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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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We see this as a win-win-win situation: good for readers, good for publishers and good for authors.
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We think this is a big deal, ... If we can bring the world of books to customers, wherever they happen to be, that's a worthwhile thing to work on.
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We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers.
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We try to be a pure investment and a long-term decision making company. No company cares more about profitability than Amazon.com. But I also want to make the most of our opportunity and we would hate to be short-sighted about that,
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We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
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We were optimistic when we wrote our initial plan, but we've vastly exceeded those expectations. The key thing we have done and the reason we have been success if we've focused entirely on creating a value proposition for the customer. Books are the best product to sell online,
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