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

Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
- People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’.
- Do what you love and love what you do.
- Impact Over Income
- Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
- All of my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts… not analysis.
- I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
- I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.
- Generally, Most of the successful people were not the best in school.
- Our world is fundamentally different from the one we were taught about in school.
- You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.
- Optimism doesn’t make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
- Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- If you start dreaming you are not running fast enough
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
- Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.