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Jeff Bezos Quotes | Quotes said by Jeff Bezos

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #1

    A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.


  • Jeff Bezos Quote #2

    Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #3

    Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #4

    E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #5

    I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #6

    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.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #7

    I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #8

    I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #9

    If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #10

    If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #11

    If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #12

    If you never want to be criticized,
    for goodness' sake, don't do anything new.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #13

    In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #14

    Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #15

    Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #16

    No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #17

    Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #18

    The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #19

    The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #20

    The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #21

    The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #22

    The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #23

    The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of websites summarize that [work] in about four minutes and readers can access that news for free. One question is, how do you make a living in that kind of environment? If you can't, it's difficult to put the right resources behind it. ... Even behind a paywall, websites can summarize your work and make it available for free. From a reader point of view, the reader has to ask, 'Why should I pay you for all that journalistic effort when I can get it for free from another site?'

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #24

    There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #25

    There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #26

    We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #27

    We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #28

    We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #29

    We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

  • Jeff Bezos Quote #30

    What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

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