Jeff Bezos Quotes:- Jeffrey Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of US$128 billion as of February 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Inspirational Jeff Bezos Quotes and Sayings
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”
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“What’s dangerous is not to evolve.”
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“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
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“It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.”
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“If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.”
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“People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.”
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“I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.”
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“I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.”
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“I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.”
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“The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.”
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Best Jeff Bezos Quotes
“My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.”
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“I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.”
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“The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.”
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“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.”
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“What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.”
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“If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”
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“If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.”
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“The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”
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“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.”
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“It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.”
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“For people who are readers, reading is important to them.”
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“I think the definition of a book is changing.”
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Jeff Bezos Quotes on Life and Business
“The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.”
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“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.”
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“In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.”
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“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.”
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“Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.”
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“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.”
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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.”
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“There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.”
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“The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?'”
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“Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.”
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“Our motto at Blue Origin is ‘Gradatim Ferociter’: ‘Step by Step, Ferociously.'”
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Jeff Bezos Quotes on Leadership
“Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.”
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“The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.”
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“Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.”
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“Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.”
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“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.”
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“I’m a genetic optimist.”
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“You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.”
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“I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.”
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“You want your customers to value your service.”
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“I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.”
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