The Everything Store Quotes

“the chairman of Random House, Alberto Vitale, told a Wall Street Journal reporter about the new online bookselling sensation from the Pacific Northwest.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“a small bike shop north of Phoenix, in Glendale, Arizona. It’s called the Roadrunner Bike Center.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“most”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“narrating”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“series of choices”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“responsible”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“publisher”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“outside-the-box”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer. They want to work on things that will pay dividends in two or three years, and if they don’t work in two or three years they will move on to something else. And they prefer to be close-followers rather than inventors, because it’s safer. So if you want to capture the truth about Amazon, that is why we are different. Very few companies have all of those three elements.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“世纪70年代初，一位名叫茱莉·雷（Julie Ray）的广告经理被一项创新计划深深吸引，这是在得克萨斯”
― Brad Stone, 一网打尽：贝佐斯与亚马逊时代

“In the spring of 1999, Wall Street’s euphoria seemed to diminish. The financial weekly Barron’s published a seminal article entitled “Amazon.bomb” that declared, “Investors are beginning to realize that this storybook stock has problems.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“During one memorable meeting, a female employee pointedly asked Bezos when Amazon was going to establish a better work-life balance. He didn’t take that well. “The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority,” he answered bluntly. “That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can’t excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“You know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Para mim, a Amazon é a história de um fundador brilhante que promoveu pessoalmente a concretização de sua visão”, diz Eric Schmidt, presidente executivo do Google,”
― Brad Stone, A loja de tudo: Jeff Bezos e a era da Amazon

“When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Jeff, um dia você entenderá que é mais difícil ser bom do que ser inteligente.”
― Brad Stone, A loja de tudo: Jeff Bezos e a era da Amazon

“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”,”
― Brad Stone, A loja de tudo: Jeff Bezos e a era da Amazon

“Não ganhamos dinheiro quando vendemos coisas. Ganhamos dinheiro quando ajudamos os clientes a decidir o que comprar.”
― Brad Stone, A loja de tudo: Jeff Bezos e a era da Amazon

“É mais fácil inventar o futuro do que prevê-lo.”
― Brad Stone, A loja de tudo: Jeff Bezos e a era da Amazon

“booths”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“When you have fit yourself snugly into Jeff Bezos’s worldview and then evaluated both the successes and failures of Amazon over the past two decades, the future of the company becomes easy to predict. The answer to almost every conceivable question is yes.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Companies that make things and companies that sell them have waged versions of this battle for centuries.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Manufacturers are not allowed to enforce retail prices for their products. But they can decide which retailers to sell to, and one way they wield that power is by setting price floors with a tool called MAP, or minimum advertised price. MAP requires offline retailers like Walmart to stay above a certain price threshold in their circulars and newspaper ads. Online retailers have a higher burden. Their product pages are considered advertisements, so they have to set their promoted prices at or above MAP or else face the manufacturer’s wrath and risk the firm’s limiting the number of products allocated or withdrawing them altogether.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Bezos had ruthlessly engineered another acquisition by driving his target off a cliff. Says one observer who had a seat close to the battle, “They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“He had seen firsthand how technology, patience, and long-term thinking could pay off.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Jeff didn’t believe in work-life balance,” says Kim Rachmeler. “He believed in work-life harmony. I guess the idea is you might be able to do everything all at once.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: “Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“The idea was always that someone would be allowed to make a profit as an intermediary. The key question is: Who will get to be that middleman?”7”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon