Quotes by Jeff Bezos

About Jeff Bezos:

Jeffrey Preston is an American business magnate and investor. He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a top model for Internet sales. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. As of March 2015, Bezos's personal wealth is estimated to be US$50 billion, due in part to a recent spike in Amazon's stock price, ranking him 15th on the Forbes list of billionaires.
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

Jeff Bezos

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.

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

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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.

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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...

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

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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 so...

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

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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.

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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 electri...

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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.

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

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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 c...

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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 s...

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

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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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

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Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

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Author Bio

  • NameJeff Bezos
  • DescriptionAmerican entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc.
  • AliasesJeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos
  • BornJanuary 12, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist; Entrepreneur; Businessperson
  • AwardsTime Person Of The Year