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Bezos: Innovation Is Good, All the Time

April 23, 2008

"My view is there's no bad time to innovate," says Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com . "You should be doing it when times are good and when times are tough--and you want to be doing it around things that your customers care about. For us, it's such a deep-seated belief, I'm not sure we have a choice."
Source: Business Week, http://www.businessweek.com

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