Quotes by Jeff Bezos

“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.”

“The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product o...”

“His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. People dont just buy books because they need books, he has said. There are products like that. Pharmaceu...”

“Cultures arent so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”

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

“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”

“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then youre competing against a lot of people. But if youre willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, youre now competing again...”

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

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

“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”

“Whats dangerous is not to evolve.”

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

“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, OK, Im looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have. And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret havin...”

“It was the combination of EC2 and S3 - storage and compute, two primitives linked together - that transformed both AWS and the technology world. Startups no longer needed to spend their venture cap...”

“When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, Are they right? And if they are, you need to adapt what theyre doing. If theyre not right, if you really have conviction that th...”

“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.”

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

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

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