Jeff Bezos quotes

Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and founder of Amazon, one of the world's largest e-commerce companies. His vision transformed the way people shop and led to innovations in cloud computing, logistics, and media. He is also known for founding Blue Origin and for his significant influence on modern technology and business. Here are 91 of his quotes:

Your margin is my opportunity.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

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

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

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

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.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

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

Because, 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.

Jeff Bezos

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Jeff Bezos

Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren't working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.

Jeff Bezos

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer' with ‘reader,' that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.

Jeff Bezos

We're building what's called a private cloud for them [the C. I. A. ], ... because they don't want to be on the public cloud.

Jeff Bezos

You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it's disruptive to the old way.

Jeff Bezos

Be stubborn on the vision, but flexible on the details.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

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

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Jeff Bezos