“If you read The Remains of the Day, which is one of my favorite books, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret.” source
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Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin. He launched Amazon as an online bookstore in 1994 and has spent the years since pointing executives and reporters to the novels and management books that shaped his thinking.
“If you read The Remains of the Day, which is one of my favorite books, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret.” source
“How do you plan to handle the narrative fallacy?” source
“Professor O'Neill was very formative for me. I read The High Frontier in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed.” source
“My favorite business book is Built to Last.” source
“I'm a big science-fiction fan. I love Dune.” source
“There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be in the second, full-stop.” source
“Unperturbed by conventional wisdom, Jason and David start fresh and rewrite the rules of business. Their approach turns out to be as successful as it is counter-intuitive.” source
“Colin and Bill have captured the essence of what it means at Amazon to start with the customer and work backwards.” source