Jeff Bezos Amazon Quotes

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online. ~ Jeff Bezos

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. ~ Jeff Bezos

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish. ~ Jeff Bezos

What's dangerous is not to evolve. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability prospects for AWS. Bezos predicted they would be good over the long term but said that he didn't want to repeat "Steve Jobs's mistake" of pricing the iPhone in a way that was so fantastically profitable that the smartphone market became a magnet for competition. ~ Brad Stone

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." ~ Jeff Bezos

Start With the Customer and Work Backward ~ Jeff Bezos

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. ~ Jeff Bezos

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' ~ Jeff Bezos

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

For people who are readers, reading is important to them. ~ Jeff Bezos

The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money. ~ Jeff Bezos

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. ~ Jeff Bezos

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online. ~ John Sculley

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. ~ 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

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

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

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable. ~ Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional. ~ Jeff Bezos

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures. ~ Jeff Bezos

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

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

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

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

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? ~ Jeff Bezos

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company. ~ 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

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient. ~ Jeff Bezos

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