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181 " Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad. "
― Brad Stone , The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
182 " An interviewer once asked Bezos why he was motivated to accomplish so much, considering that he had already amassed an exceedingly large fortune. “I have realized about myself that I’m very motivated by people counting on me,” he answered. “I like to be counted on. "
183 " engineers to "
184 " É mais fácil inventar o futuro do que prevê-lo.” — Alan Kay "
185 " There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop, "
186 " It’s an easy prediction to make—that Jeff Bezos will do what he has always done. He will attempt to move faster, work his employees harder, make bolder bets, and pursue both big inventions and small ones, all to achieve his grand vision for Amazon—that it be not just an everything store, but ultimately an everything company. "
187 " Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of all the books they acquired from publishers, for full refunds, "
188 " People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way. Jeff Bezos "
189 " The book clearly resonated with Amazon’s founder. On the last page, a section completed a few weeks before his death, Walton wrote: Could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there’s someone—probably hundreds of thousands of someones—with good enough ideas to go all the way. It will be done again, over and over, providing that someone wants it badly enough to do what it takes to get there. It’s all a matter of attitude and the capacity to constantly study and question the management of the business. Jeff Bezos embodied the qualities Sam Walton wrote about. "
190 " The Innovator’s Dilemma: "
191 " Sam Walton: Made in America, "
192 " the quicker the company grew, the more territory it could capture in what was becoming the race to establish new brands on the digital frontier. "
193 " obsessão pelo cliente; simplicidade; propensão à ação; propriedade; e padrões elevados de talento. "
194 " The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, "
195 " The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, "
196 " In 2008, Sinegal bought a Kindle e-reader that turned out to be defective and wrote Bezos a laudatory e-mail after Amazon’s customer service replaced his device for free. Bezos wrote back, “I want you to consider me your personal customer service agent on the Kindle.” Perhaps "
197 " Gradatim Ferociter, which translates to “Step by Step, Ferociously. "
198 " Existem dois tipos de vendedores: os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar mais e os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar menos, e nós seremos o segundo, ponto final”, "
199 " We have to level the playing field in terms of purchasing power with the established booksellers. "
200 " Mensagem postada na Usenet, 21 de agosto de 1994: Start-up com bom capital busca programadores de C/C++/Unix muito talentosos para projeto pioneiro de comércio pela internet. É necessário ter experiência em projetar e desenvolver sistemas grandes e complexos (que possam ser atualizados) e ser capaz de fazer isso em um terço do tempo considerado possível. Exigimos bacharelado, mestrado ou Ph.D. em ciência da computação ou formação equivalente. Grande facilidade de comunicação é essencial. É desejável, mas não imprescindível, ter familiaridade com servidores de Web e HTML. Esperamos trabalhar com pessoas talentosas, motivadas, apaixonadas e interessantes que tenham disponibilidade para se mudar para Seattle (ajudaremos com os custos da mudança). Oferecemos uma participação significativa nas ações da empresa. Enviar currículo e carta de apresentação para Jeff Bezos. Endereço: Cadabra Inc. 10.704 N.E. 28th St., Bellevue, WA 98004 Oferecemos as mesmas oportunidades para todos. "