Jeff Bezos Quotes

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Jeff Bezos

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 12, 1964

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Jeff Bezos

You want your customers to value your service.

Jeff Bezos

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Jeff Bezos

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

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

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

Jeff Bezos

You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

Jeff Bezos

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Jeff Bezos

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

Jeff Bezos

Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

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

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

Jeff Bezos

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Jeff Bezos

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Jeff Bezos

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

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

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Jeff Bezos

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It's hard to get off of that equilibrium.

Jeff Bezos

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos