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Biography: Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquer... more Biography: Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he graduated from Princeton University in 1986. In 1994, he launched Amazon, which revolutionized e-commerce. Bezos also founded Blue Origin, a space exploration company, and owns The Washington Post. less
"When you think about the things that you will regret when you’re 80, they’re almost always the things that you did not do. They’re acts of omission. Very rarely are you going to regret something that you did that failed and didn’t work or whatever."
Tags: Personal growth, Life lessons, Reflection, Failure, Regret
"As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ"
Tags: Innovation, Failure, Entrepreneurship, Business strategy, Risk management
"When you look at something like, go back in time when we started working on Kindle almost seven years ago…. There you just have to place a bet. If you place enough of those bets, and if you place them early enough, none of them are ever betting the company"
Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Risk-taking, Business strategy, Future planning
"We understand that and believe in failing early and iterating until we get it right. When this process works, it means our failures are relatively small in size (most experiments can start small), and when we hit on something that is really working for cus"
Tags: Innovation, Business strategy, Risk management, Experimentation, Product development
"Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at."
Tags: Innovation, Failure, Business strategy, Risk management, Corporate culture
"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new."
Tags: Personal growth, Self-improvement, Courage, Innovation, Change
"The difference between baseball and business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step"
Tags: Business strategy, Risk and reward, Business opportunities
"We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs."
Tags: Motivation, Perseverance, Personal development, Life lessons, Goal setting
"We take risks all the time, we talk about failure. We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don't, we're not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that's okay."
Tags: Motivation, Self-improvement, Resilience, Perseverance, Growth
"To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."
Tags: Creativity, Innovation, Failure, Discovery, Problem-solving
"Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight."
Tags: Personal development, Patience, Growth mindset, Experimentation, Customer satisfaction
"Development of the Fire phone and Echo was started around the same time. While the Fire phone was a failure, we were able to take our learnings (as well as the developers) and accelerate our efforts building Echo and Alexa."
Tags: Learning from failure, Echo, Tech innovation, Amazon, Product success
"No customer was asking for Echo. This was definitely us wandering. Market research doesn’t help."
Tags: Innovation, Business strategy, Product development, Risk taking, Tech industry
"Sometimes (often actually) in business, you do know where you’re going, and when you do, you can be efficient. Put in place a plan and execute. In contrast, wandering in business is not efficient ... but it’s also not random. It’s guided – by hunch, gut, i"
Tags: Innovation, Efficiency, Business strategy, Planning, Execution
"Me-too companies have not done that well over time."
Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business strategy, Market competition, Success factors
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