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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, who is best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online shopping retailer.

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Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

Align, Customers, Design, Win, Win Win, Winning

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Enterprise, Good, Knell, Matter, Past

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Changes, Complaining, Head, Needs, Tail, Wind

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

All Time, Firm, Grasp, Obvious, Times

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

Double, Experiments, Number, Numbers, Technology, Years

I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

Business, Percent, Recipe, Service, Successful, Thinking

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Cause, Causes, People, Reading

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

Choices, Cleverness, Easy, Gift, Kindness

You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not

Be Who You Are, Business, Case, Cases, Make, Should

There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.

Critical, Focused, Internally, People, Successful, Way

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Book, Create, Narrative, People

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.

Business, Gold, Opportunity, Resilience, Terms, Thinking

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

Backwards, Becomes, Starting, Touchstone, Touchstones

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

Figuring, Flexible, Inventing, Part, Stubborn

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

Customer, Customer Satisfaction, Educational, Focused, Stay Focused, Turn

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Behalf, Long, Mean, Think, Thinking, Unless

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Fail, Failing, Inventive, Want, Willing

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

Invention, Long, Misunderstood, Requires, Willingness

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

Gutenberg, History, Internet, Records, Surprised

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

Mail, Online, People, Simple, Things

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