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Customer Focus
- Amazon's success stems from an obsessive focus on the customer, not the competitor.
- Identify your customer correctly; for Amazon, it's the reader, not advertisers.
Washington Post Purchase
- Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post without prior newspaper experience.
- He saw its importance as a democratic institution and felt optimistic about its potential.
Academic Excellence
- Jeff Bezos has always excelled academically but acknowledges diverse forms of intelligence.
- He even lost library privileges for laughing too loudly in high school.