Quotes by Jeff Bezos

“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.”

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

“It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.”

“I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to exper...”

“The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.”

“The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.”

“Strip malls are history.”

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

“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.”

“Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.”

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

“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.”

“What's dangerous is not to evolve.”

“The 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...”

“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.”

“What we need to do is always lean into the future when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and...”

“The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of websites summarize that [work] in ab...”

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

“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.”