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TL;DR:
If you want to succeed like Jeff Bezos:
• Be afraid
• Pay to quit
• Plant seeds
• Cash is king
• Hire the best
• Customers 1st
• Think long-term
• Think exponentially
• Process over results
• Make the right decisions
Remember, It is always Day 1
• Always Day 1
Day 1 at Amazon is growth, always moving forward.
Day 2 is stasis, followed by irrelevance, then excruciating, painful decline, and ultimately death.
To always be in Day 1,
simply follow all of the points above.
Alway.
Every. Single. Day.
• Hiring the best
To hire the best people, ask:
1 - Will I admire this person
2 - Will they raise our average
3 - Where can they be a super star
Your colleagues make or break the business.
Hire colleagues who will raise the bar.
Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.
• Work long, hard and smart
You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon you can't choose two out of three.
Set the bar high.
Hire the best.
Your colleagues will determine your future.
Jeff Bezos is worth 177.5 billion dollars.
Every year he wrote an annual letter teaching us how.
I read all 40,000 words of them so you don't need to.
Here are 14 lessons worth your time: