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1. “Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.” – Jeff Bezos 2.I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. Jeff Bezos 3.If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. Jeff Bezos 4.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. Jeff Bezos  5. It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times. Jeff Bezos 6.The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space. Jeff Bezos 7.Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location. Jeff Bezos 8.“We have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter.” Jeff Bezos 9.Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater ca...

Self-Made Success Actually being successful or like moving out of our mom's basement or whatever  we put so much energy and time into the presentation  of not looking like that situation  instead of putting the energy and time into actually  finding a solution to that issue. And so at that point  it was like okay I've been putting a lot of time and effort  trying to pretend things are good  instead of actually trying to find solutions  and then, that's when I started to  do everything I needed to do to try to make money and just really...  when I say embrace it's not necessarily like  accept it for what it is it's almost like, "Okay, this is real  I need to figure this out."  Taking your surroundings you take in the people around you  you see how they're making money  and I just didn't like begging people for money.  And so I respected the guys that were like figuring out hustles  right? And so,  f...