Focus relentlessly and passionately on the customer.

Jeff Bezos

FocusRelentlesslyPassionatelyCustomer

I'd rather interview fifty people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

Jeff Bezos

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Our judgment is that relentlessly returning efficiency improvements and scale economies to customers in the form of lower prices creates a virtuous cycle that leads over the long term to a much larger dollar amount of free cash flow, and thereby to a much more valuable Amazon.com.

Jeff Bezos

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What's good for customers is good for shareholders.

Jeff Bezos

CustomersShareholdersGood

Starter pack of essentials for Day 1 defense: customer obsession, a skeptical view of proxies, the eager adoption of external trends, andhigh-velocity decision making.

Jeff Bezos

CustomerTrendsDecisionVelocity

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Mark Zuckerberg

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