Jeff Bezos
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"Jeffrey Preston" ""Jeff"" "Bezos" is an American business magnate and investor. He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a top model for Internet sales. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. As of October 2014, Bezos's personal wealth is estimated to be US$27.6 billion, ranking him number 21 on the Forbes list of billionaires.

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We are thrilled to have Joe at Amazon.

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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

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We did a lot this quarter. For the rest of 1999 we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.

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We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook.

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We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

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We will continue to invest in systems, people and product expansion, each of which helps us better serve customers, ... For the rest of 1999, we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.

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We believe there's a tremendous opportunity ahead across the $5 trillion retail market globally.

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