"If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail." ― Jeff Bezos Topic(s): Business More From Jeff Bezos "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful." "The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’" "The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home." More In Business "I think women are excellent social critics."― Laurie Anderson "Seek home for rest, for home is best."― Thomas Tusser "An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."― Thomas Mann