Why would you ever enter a negotiation if you don't know what you want ? You're most likely to injure yourself. So sure, Bezos' didn't make mistake #1 people ma

Why would you ever enter a negotiation if you don't know what you want ? You're most likely to injure yourself. So sure, Bezos' didn't make mistake #1 people make in negotiations. Google "bafta", "negotiation maximum pain", and start there for what you need to know before you buy as much as a loaf of bread. And yes, I have in fact managed to negotiate down the price of bread in a Supermarket. I would suggest you try too, just to show yourself that it's possible. Amazon only grew because of the interstate commerce Sales tax exception. Essentially Amazon grew only because states couldn't tax it. Only the Federal government got money from them. Amazon is a creation of the Federal government (using a rule, ironically, Democrats and even Bernie Sanders voted FOR, not against. The Federal government really wanted to create an Amazon like company, and so they provided this advantage, and Bezos crushed it. That's what happened. Amazon is not a bookstore, it isn't even a store or warehouse or technology firm, it's a effectively a government hedge fund) Look at Bezos' background. Is he a librarian ? A book seller ? He's a wall street investor (started as an engineer actually, but he was working quite the time as a speculator by the time he founded Amazon). He's a financial engineer, would perhaps be the best description. He will innovate, but he realizes that his innovations are about taxes, prices, trading and moving opportunities around. They're very much not about products, books, hosting, ... or any of that. So last year the Federal govenrnment took away his tax advantage over his competitors (at least Walmart). So you can bet your bottom dollar that 12 out of every 24 waking hours of Bezos' time were spent figuring out how to get that back. This seems to have been one answer (I seriously doubt he has only one trick going).