Statement to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

“I’m always trying to figure out one thing first and foremost: Is that person a missionary or a mercenary?” Bezos says. “The mercenaries are trying to flip their stock. The missionaries love their product or their service and love their customers and are trying to build a great service.

• How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?


• Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?


• Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?


• Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?


• Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?


• Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you

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How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you... See more

I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

In a talk at the 2018 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Jeff described Amazon this way: “Our culture is four things: customer obsession instead of competitor obsession; willingness to think long term, with a longer investment horizon than most of our peers; eagerness to invent, which of course goes hand in hand with failure; and then, finally, takin

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