How is Amazon different from other companies?

“We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things.They are focused on the competitors , rather than the customer.

They want to work on things that will pay dividends in two or three years, and if they don’t work in two or three years they will move on to something else. And they prefer to be close-followers rather than inventors, because it’s safer.

Very few companies have all of those three elements.” — Bezos