Best Jeff Bezos Quotes & Sayings

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

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations. — Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon. — Jose Ferreira

There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company. — 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

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side. — Jeff Bezos

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

Did you know that Jeff Bezos, in place of PowerPoint presentations in meetings, requires his execs to write six-page narrative memos? — Bryan Eisenberg

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. — Jeff Bezos

For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions! — Jeff Bezos

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. — 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. — Jeff Bezos

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

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

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

One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting. — Jeff Bezos

The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it. — Jeff Bezos

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

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever. — 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

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard. — Jeff Bezos

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can. — Jeff Bezos

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces. — Rebecca MacKinnon

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you're competing against a lot of people. But if you're willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you're now competing against a fraction of those people ... Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue — Jeff Bezos

There are many advantages to a customer-centric approach, but here's the big one: customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they report being happy and business is great. Even when they don't yet know it, customers want something better, and your desire to delight customers will drive you to invent on their behalf.
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From 7 insightful quotes to shareholders via letter. 2017 — Malini Chaudhri

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways. — Jeff Bezos

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. — Jeff Bezos

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language in under 60 seconds. — Jeff Bezos

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

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world's biggest retail company. — Hubert Burda

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it. — Jeff Bezos

Start With the Customer and Work Backward — Jeff Bezos

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. — Jeff Bezos

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. — Jeff Bezos

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent. — Jeff Bezos

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don't is because it is detrimental to teamwork. — Jeff Bezos