Jeff Bezos Quotes

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Jeff Bezos

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 12, 1964

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Jeff Bezos

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

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What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Jeff Bezos

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

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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

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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

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 figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

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If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

Jeff Bezos

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Jeff Bezos