Jeff Bezos Quotes

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.

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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Said
  • Employees

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
  • Cold

• We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Employees

• I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Employees

• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Time
  • Women
  • Employees

• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Turn
  • Employees

• Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • True
  • Trust
  • Same

• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Pay
  • Escape
  • Employees

• Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • Growth
  • Management

• Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Benefit
  • Investors
  • Mortgage

• It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Responsibility
  • Investors
  • Lenders

• Frankly, it was never practicable for the AG's office to receive a vast sum of money and then try to disperse that money to individual investors, ... Those individual investors will have to go through some sort of fact-finding process to demonstrate who relied on who and is owed how much.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Money
  • Office
  • Investors

• Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Done
  • Business
  • Smart

• The CEO was personally bought off by being given IPO allocations, ... Small investors were left holding the bag.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Small
  • Investors
  • CEO

• My office will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the ill-gotten gains of those who engage in this conduct are returned to investors, that wrongdoers are held responsible, and that the appropriate reforms are implemented to halt this egregious activity.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Investors
  • Engage
  • Reforms

• If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Attention
  • Draws
  • Investors

• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • New
  • Architecture

• Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

  

  George Burton Adams
  • Opportunity
  • Feel
  • Encouragement

• Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Novel

• The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wife

• 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
  • Investors
  • Employees