Jeff Bezos Quotes

1. Kindness is a choice. – Jeff Bezos

2. Obsess over customers. – Jeff Bezos

3. Strip malls are history. – Jeff Bezos

4. I like to be counted on. – Jeff Bezos

5. Frugality drives innovation. – Jeff Bezos

6. No communication is terrible! – Jeff Bezos

7. Your margin is my opportunity. – Jeff Bezos

8. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

9. Are you lazy or just incompetent. – Jeff Bezos

10. I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks. – Jeff Bezos

11. All businesses need to be forever. – Jeff Bezos

12. What is dangerous is not to evolve. – Jeff Bezos

13. Work hard, have fun and make history. – Jeff Bezos

14. 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

15. Obsess about customers, not competitors. – Jeff Bezos

16. Be proud of your choices, not your gifts. – Jeff Bezos

17. Everything you are comes from your choices. – Jeff Bezos

18. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. – Jeff Bezos

19. My view is there’s no bad time to innovate. – Jeff Bezos

20. Invention by its very nature is disruptive. – Jeff Bezos

21. Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details. – Jeff Bezos

22. You want your customers to value your service. – Jeff Bezos

23. In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve. – Jeff Bezos

24. It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online. – Jeff Bezos

25. We are our choices. Build yourself a great story. – Jeff Bezos

26. What we need to do is always look into the future. – Jeff Bezos

27. There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery. – Jeff Bezos

28. We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details. – Jeff Bezos

29. I’m not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments. – Jeff Bezos

30. It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work. – Jeff Bezos

31. Determine what your customers need, and work backwards. – Jeff Bezos

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

33. If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. – Jeff Bezos

34. Patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail. – Jeff Bezos

35. The people who are right a lot, often change their minds. – Jeff Bezos

36. The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. – Jeff Bezos

37. We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode. – Jeff Bezos

38. Advertising is the price you pay for unremarkable thinking. – Jeff Bezos

39. If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail. – Jeff Bezos

40. My own view is that every company requires a long-term view. – Jeff Bezos

41. Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good. – Jeff Bezos

42. Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. – Jeff Bezos

43. You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations. – Jeff Bezos

44. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful. – Jeff Bezos

45. This has the potential to be bigger than anything we’ve ever done. – Jeff Bezos

46. Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. – Jeff Bezos

47. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. – Jeff Bezos

48. If you’re truly obsessed over customers, it’ll cover a lot of errors. – Jeff Bezos

49. Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard. – Jeff Bezos

50. You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate. – Jeff Bezos

51. Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process. – Jeff Bezos

52. The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever. – Jeff Bezos

53. I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface. – Jeff Bezos

54. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business. – Jeff Bezos

55. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. – Jeff Bezos

56. Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room. – Jeff Bezos

57. Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer. – Jeff Bezos

58. If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail. – Jeff Bezos

59. A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last. – Jeff Bezos

60. If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new. – Jeff Bezos

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

62. People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often. – Jeff Bezos

63. I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person. – Jeff Bezos

64. The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. – Jeff Bezos

65. I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure. – Jeff Bezos

66. If you’re going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor. – Jeff Bezos

67. We have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter. – Jeff Bezos

68. We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices. – Jeff Bezos

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

70. If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. – Jeff Bezos

71. Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions. – Jeff Bezos

72. It’ so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as the book and improve on it. – Jeff Bezos

73. The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past – no matter how good it was. – Jeff Bezos

74. If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish. – Jeff Bezos

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

76. I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online. – Jeff Bezos

77. Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies. – Jeff Bezos

78. All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s. – Jeff Bezos

79. If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness. – Jeff Bezos

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

81. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. – Jeff Bezos

82. If you build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

83. Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does. – Jeff Bezos

84. People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it. – Jeff Bezos

85. Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes. – Jeff Bezos

86. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. – Jeff Bezos

87. We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards. – Jeff Bezos

88. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

89. If you think about the long-term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later. – Jeff Bezos

90. Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new. – Jeff Bezos

91. The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works. – Jeff Bezos

92. Seek instant gratification – or the elusive promise of it – and chances are you’ll find a crowd there ahead of you. – Jeff Bezos

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

94. Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life. – Jeff Bezos

95. If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right. – Jeff Bezos

96. 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

97. Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It’s not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win. – Jeff Bezos

98. The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company. – Jeff Bezos

99. 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. – Jeff Bezos

100. 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