Jeff Bezos Quotes

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

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

I never worked on the school newspaper.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

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.

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not

Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

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

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

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

Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

Ebooks had to happen.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

I like to be counted on.

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

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.

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

No, communication is terrible!

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

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

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

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

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

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.

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

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

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.

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 velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.