Top 100 Bezos's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Bezos's

#1. Mike Bezos's job took them to Miami - a city Mike had first encountered fifteen years before as a penniless immigrant. Now he was an executive at Exxon, and the family bought a four-bedroom house with a backyard pool in the affluent Palmetto neighborhood in unincorporated Dade County. Miami

Brad Stone

#2. Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!

Burt Rutan

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.

Jeff Bezos

#8. We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#10. 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

#11. 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.

Jeff Bezos

#12. I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

Jeff Bezos

#13. I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is ... it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

Jeff Bezos

#14. 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

#15. I do think Bezos has an insatiable desire to be King Bezos," Musk said. "He has a relentless work ethic and wants to kill everything in e-commerce. But he's not the most fun guy, honestly."*

Ashlee Vance

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

Jeff Bezos

#17. Thus did Jeff Bezos become one of the original investors in Google, his company's future rival,

Brad Stone

#18. While he was charming and capable of great humor in public, in private, Bezos could bite an employee's head right off.

Brad Stone

#19. All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

Jeff Bezos

#20. The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Jeff Bezos

#21. There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

Jeff Bezos

#22. If there's one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.

Jeff Bezos

#23. The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

Jeff Bezos

#24. The building block of organizations should be small teams. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, at one point had a "two-pizza team" rule,41 which stipulates that teams be small enough to be fed by two pizzas.

Eric Schmidt

#25. 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 something meaningful that motivates you.

Jeff Bezos

#26. Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#28. Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

Jeff Bezos

#29. Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

Jeff Bezos

#30. But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

Jeff Bezos

#31. Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#33. What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Jeff Bezos

#34. It's very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you're writing the business plan that there's a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

Jeff Bezos

#35. We're building a unique global platform ... In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

Jeff Bezos

#36. I didn't think he was a very 'nice' person,' says Chichilnisky [about Jeff Bezos]. 'I liked him, but he was not warm. I'm not criticising him, not a bit. It was like he could be a Martian for all I knew. A well-meaning, nice Martian.

Richard L. Brandt

#37. It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

Jeff Bezos

#38. You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.

Jeff Bezos

#39. Perhaps it is his goofy laugh and silly grin that made people underestimate him; certainly his playfulness contributed to that perception. At their wedding reception, Jeff [Bezos] and MacKenzie provided an outdoor adult play area that included water balloons.

Richard L. Brandt

#40. 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

#41. Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

Jeff Bezos

#42. Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

Foster Friess

#43. If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

Jeff Bezos

#44. I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Jeff Bezos

#45. 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

#46. What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#48. If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Jeff Bezos

#49. Work Hard, have fun, make history

Jeff Bezos

#50. I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

Jeff Bezos

#51. 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

#52. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

Fareed Zakaria

#53. 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 strategy.

Jeff Bezos

#54. Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.

Jeff Bezos

#55. If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

Jeff Bezos

#56. If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Jeff Bezos

#57. 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.

Jeff Bezos

#58. Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

Jeff Bezos

#59. I'd rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

Jeff Bezos

#60. I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Jeff Bezos

#61. I never worked on the school newspaper.

Jeff Bezos

#62. Not the outcome any of us wanted.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#64. I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#66. 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

#67. Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

Jeff Bezos

#68. One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Jeff Bezos

#69. Strip malls are history.

Jeff Bezos

#70. I'm a genetic optimist.

Jeff Bezos

#71. Are you lazy or just incompetent?

Jeff Bezos

#72. 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

#73. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

Jeff Bezos

#74. If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

Jeff Bezos

#75. Our garage was basically science fair central.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#78. Things never go smoothly.

Jeff Bezos

#79. Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

Jeff Bezos

#80. 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

#81. Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: "Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.

Brad Stone

#82. If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

Jeff Bezos

#83. To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Jeff Bezos

#84. If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over.

Jeff Bezos

#85. We would trust Jeff to take them to movies," Jackie Bezos says, "but the two of them would come back embarrassed, saying, 'Jeff laughs too loud.' It would be some Disney movie, and his laughter was drowning out everything." After

Brad Stone

#86. 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

#87. Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Reed Hastings

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

Jeff Bezos

#89. 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.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

#91. I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Jeff Bezos

#92. 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

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

Jeff Bezos

#94. But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

Jeff Bezos