Jeff Bezos Quotes

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Jeff Bezos

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 12, 1964

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Jeff Bezos

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Jeff Bezos

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

Jeff Bezos

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Jeff Bezos

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

Jeff Bezos

In this industry, there's a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you're often a customer and a vendor in another way. It's not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it's not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Jeff Bezos

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Jeff Bezos

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

Jeff Bezos

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Jeff Bezos

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Jeff Bezos

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Jeff Bezos

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Jeff Bezos

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Jeff Bezos

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

Jeff Bezos

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Jeff Bezos

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Jeff Bezos

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Jeff Bezos

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

Jeff Bezos

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.

Jeff Bezos

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Jeff Bezos