Jeff Bezos quotes

Born
January 12, 1964 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.

Occupation
Technology, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist.

Jeff BezosĀ is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping retailer.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
– Jeff Bezos

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
– Jeff Bezos

Ebooks had to happen.
– Jeff Bezos

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.
– Jeff Bezos

Strip malls are history.
– Jeff Bezos

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
– Jeff Bezos

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.
– Jeff Bezos

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
– Jeff Bezos

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That’s why there’s the old saw: location, location, location.
– Jeff Bezos

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

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.
– Jeff Bezos

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
– Jeff Bezos

I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’
– 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.
– Jeff Bezos

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

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
– Jeff Bezos

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

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
– Jeff Bezos

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
– Jeff Bezos

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
– Jeff Bezos

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

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
– Jeff Bezos

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
– Jeff Bezos

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
– Jeff Bezos

You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
– Jeff Bezos

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.
– Jeff Bezos

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
– Jeff Bezos

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

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
– Jeff Bezos

Infrastructure web services had to happen.
– Jeff Bezos

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.
– Jeff Bezos

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

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.
– Jeff Bezos

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
– Jeff Bezos

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
– Jeff Bezos