Jeff Bezos's Quotes
Born: 1964-01-12
Profession: Businessman
Nation: American
Biography of Jeff Bezos
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.
Tags: Box, Innovation, WaysI think the definition of a book is changing.
Tags: Book, Changing, DefinitionI think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
Tags: Bunch, Category, ProductI very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
Tags: Cracked, Indeed, InternetI'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.
Tags: Big, Fan, PlansI've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
Tags: Computers, WhateverIf you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
Tags: Business, Fail, UnderstandIf you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Tags: Away, Company, GoesIt is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
Tags: Difficult, Focus, TimesIt's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
Tags: Experiment, WorkMediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
Tags: Progress, Spend, TimeOne of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
Tags: Complete, Obvious, StorePart of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.
Tags: Company, Culture, LearnThe human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Tags: Brain, Human, IncredibleWhat we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Tags: Negotiate, Price, SimpleYou know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Tags: Lost, Love, StoriesMillions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
Tags: Doubt, Old, ScienceThe 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.
Tags: Evil, Home, TryingThere are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Tags: Business, Good, WorkWe 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.
Tags: Experience, Job, PartyBut 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.
Tags: Hair, Stage, StuffMarket leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
Tags: Greater, Leadership, StrongerOn the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
Tags: Big, Hard, SmallPeople 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.
Tags: Forget, Internet, SimplePercentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Tags: Actually, Matter, MattersThe killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Tags: Home, Light, ThinkingWe 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.
Tags: Business, Expect, PositiveI strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Tags: Business, Care, WhyA brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Tags: Hard, Reputation, TryingThere 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.
Tags: Business, Try, WorkIf you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Tags: Experience, Great, PowerfulI don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
Tags: Creative, Else, EnergyReal estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
Tags: Old, Real, WhyThe best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
Tags: Best, Service, TalkIf you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
Tags: Competitor, Until, WaitI believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
Tags: Innovate, WillingThe 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.
Tags: Common, Easy, MotivationThe common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
Tags: Business, Good, WhyWhat consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
Tags: Actually, Getting, LivesThe book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
Tags: Book, Create, NarrativeBecause, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Tags: Good, Last, PrettyA company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
Tags: Addicted, Company, LastAmazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Tags: Buy, Discover, OnlineEbooks had to happen.
Tags: HappenFor many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
Tags: Cause, Display, ReadingI don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
Tags: Exchanges, Meaningful