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Source: 1998 Letter to shareholders
Published: Q1 1999
Wake Up Every Morning Terrified
Circulated: October 11, 2019
We intend to build the world’s most customer-centric company. But there is no rest for the weary. I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Not of our competition, but of our customers. We consider customers to be loyal to us — right up until the second that someone else offers them a better service.