Jeff Bezos Quotes

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

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.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

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

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

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

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.

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.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

Strip malls are history.

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

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

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

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

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

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

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.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

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

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.