About This Quote

About Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos was a contemporary American businessman. Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239.4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world. Read more on Wikipedia →

More 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.”
— Jeff Bezos
adversity marriage partnership

“Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.”
— Jeff Bezos
passion zeal

“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...”
— Jeff Bezos
passion zeal

“Cultures arent so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”
— Jeff Bezos
culture expectations

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”
— Jeff Bezos
challenge change growth tradition

“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...”
— Jeff Bezos
business ideation startups
View all quotes by Jeff Bezos →