Jeff Bezos Quotes

Strip malls are history.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they a...

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

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what...

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from y...

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

What we need to do is always lean into the future when the world changes around you and when it chan...

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charg...

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary abou...

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to m...

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powe...

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with peo...

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince peopl...

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard th...

The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, beca...

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

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to s...

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

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally va...

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

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve...

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and do...

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. ...

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lotte...

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, b...

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

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to mi...

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is...

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot...

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but ...

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

What's dangerous is not to evolve.