Jeff Bezos

“Sam Walton, CEO and founder of Walmart, said this line that then Jeff Bezos stole exactly. He said, we get into some of the doggondest knockdown drag outs you've ever seen, talking about his management meetings, but we have a rule. We never leave an item hangi…”

“And it was it was about Jeff Bezos and he only makes three decisions a day. And so he will sit down and he'll find problems and he'll make three decisions every single day. But they're like, Billion dollar decisions.”

“Regret minimization means that Bezos didn't set annual goals early on. He set irreversible direction Goals.”

“I don't think you choose to be an entrepreneur. I think, like, there's this great line from Jeff Bezos where he says, we don't choose our passions choose us. That's how I kind of think about it. So I think even if they, that entrepreneur type didn't even have …”

“Bezos's analogy for this. Cause he's all like, all he thinks about is AI all day long now. Is he calls it these thin horizontal enabling layers. And he thinks AI is more akin to electricity than it is to anything else. The internet was a thin horizontal enabli…”

“There's no difference in lifestyle whatsoever. For most of the people, there'd be no difference in lifestyle between a hundred million and a hundred billion. You know, you're, you have too many houses, you have planes, you have everything you could want.”

“And if you see these reviews of this car, and you see the founding principles that work inside of Lei Jun's head, he's special. You know, he's very, very special. Every bit as special as Toby or Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos.”

“I've seen people at Amazon actually tell Jeff Bezos, you run an evil company while working for it. Like, why are we evil? I had an all hands, a guy, you know, said, we seem to avoid taxes. Why are you such a tax dodger?”

“Jeff hated PowerPoint and the famous story why it it's old now, but when the space shuttle Challenger exploded, They went and found the PowerPoint slide had been used to justify the launch. And this PowerPoint had like seven levels of nested bullets and the ti…”

“He often said we need to be strategically patient, but tactically impatient. And what he meant by that was really valuable things take time to build.”

“I'd rather pay to get two of something because I find when I force people to collaborate too soon, they gridlock and argue about priorities, and what I actually get is nothing. And so I'd rather pay for two Then get zero, and if we're so lucky as to get two wo…”

“The, another thing I learned from Jeff, he always spoke last because he realized very quickly that even though he wanted strong leaders who would disagree with him, once the great Jeff Bezos says, I like this idea, Everyone else is more or less going to line u…”

“When Jeff Bezos raised Amazon's first million bucks in ninety-five-ish, he took 60 meetings, he got 40 rejections, and he told every investor the same thing. He figured there was a 70% chance they would lose their entire investment.”