Jeff Bezos Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.
We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you're going to invent, you're going to disrupt.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.
Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.
For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.
We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later.
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.