Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

by Colin Bryar

“You can write down your corporate culture, but when you do so, you’re discovering it, uncovering it—not creating it.”

Corporates culture

“We want missionaries, not mercenaries.”

“most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow.

“The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody’s part-time job.”

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