Jeff Bezos Quotes

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Jeff Bezos

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 12, 1964

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

We're taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

Jeff Bezos

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

Jeff Bezos

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Jeff Bezos

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Jeff Bezos

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Jeff Bezos

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

Jeff Bezos

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Jeff Bezos

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn't work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Jeff Bezos

I don't know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that's why that's Blue Origin's mission.

Jeff Bezos

A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you'll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn't sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren's grandchildren to live in.

Jeff Bezos

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

Jeff Bezos

We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.

Jeff Bezos

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

Jeff Bezos

Ebooks had to happen.

Jeff Bezos

The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.

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.

Jeff Bezos