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Business Strategy Quotes

"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."

"We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient."

"If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering."

"Your margin is my opportunity."

"All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's."

"We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details."

"If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away."

"If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned."

"A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last."

"All of my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts... not analysis."

"Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway."

"Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'"

"Day 2 companies make high-quality decisions, but they make high-quality decisions slowly. To keep the energy and dynamism of Day 1, you have to somehow make high-quality, high-velocity decisions."

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

"When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer."

"One common pitfall for large organizations – one that hurts speed and inventiveness – is 'one-size-fits-all' decision making...The end result of this is slowness, unthoughtful risk aversion, failure to experiment sufficiently, and consequently diminished i"

"If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own."

"Me-too companies have not done that well over time."

"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"

"No customer was asking for Echo. This was definitely us wandering. Market research doesn’t help."

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