Always Day One Quotes

“Customers are always unsatisfied,” Bezos said in an April 2018 interview. “They’re always discontent, they always want more. No matter how far you get out there in front of your competitors, you’re still behind your customers. They’re always pulling you along.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“Lynn expressed particular concern about Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and began our conversation teeing off on the first two. These companies, he said, have used their dominant market positions to skim large amounts of advertising dollars from news organizations, harming local communities. Advertising revenue declines have hit small and midsize papers especially hard, hollowing out local accountability reporting across the United States, a boon to local officials who would rather not be watched.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“everything we know about management today is rooted in manufacturing”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“meaning in their lives. The top three boil down to: (1) friends and family, (2) religion, and (3) work and money”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“Mark was like, ‘What do people want? Let’s just give it to them.’ He was a bit more cautious. He was more vigilant. He was definitely not thinking his product was eternal.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“At Amazon, it’s always Day One. Facebook, as the internal saying goes, is 1 percent done.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“Day One” at Amazon is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. It’s an acknowledgment that competitors today can create new products at record speeds—thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and cloud computing especially—so you might as well build for the future, even at the present’s expense.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“At the heart of their inventive cultures is something I’ll call the Engineer’s Mindset. The Engineer’s Mindset is a way of thinking—not a technical aptitude—that underpins a culture of building, creating, and inventing.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

“What does Day Two look like?” Bezos asked. “Day Two is stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death.”
― Alex Kantrowitz, Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever