Jeff Bezos Quotes
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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
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Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.
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People don't want gadgets, they want services.
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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
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We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
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My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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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. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.
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If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today...
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My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
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Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
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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.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
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Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."
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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
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That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.
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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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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.