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

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

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

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When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that ...

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

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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 tryi...

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

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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...

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

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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.

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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 ...

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

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

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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

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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.

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

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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're goin...

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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