Jeff Bezos Quotes

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• I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspiring, Motivation, Regret

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Ideas, Views

  "Some advice from Jeff Bezos" by Jason Fried, signalvnoise.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, People, Marketing

  "Why America’s #1 Business Advantage is Being Ravaged by Cultural Shifts and Social Media" by Emad Rizkalla, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Everything you are comes from your choices.

  Jeff Bezos

  Life, Choices

  "We Are What We Choose". Commencement speech to Princeton's Class of 2010, www.businessinsider.in. May 30, 2010.

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivation, People

  "Jeff Bezos' Wife Trashes The New Book On Amazon, Gives It 1 Star, Says The Author Got Lots Of Facts Wrong" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 4, 2013.

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• 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

  Mistake, Passion, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Work hard, have fun and make history.

  Jeff Bezos

  Fun, Hard Work, Productivity

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• Obsess about customers, not competitors.

  Jeff Bezos

  Competitors, Customers

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• If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

  Jeff Bezos

  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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• People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, People, Mind

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Entrepreneur, Details, Failing

  "What Would Jeff and Steve Say?" by Terence Roche, gonzobanker.com. March 17, 2014.

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• We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

  Jeff Bezos

  Choices, Stories, Our Choices

  Jeff Bezos' Commencement Address at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

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• To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

  Jeff Bezos

  Done, Stubborn, Might

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

  Jeff Bezos

  Decision, Important, Energy

  "I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions - No Profits, The Book Controversies, The Phone Flop - And He Showed Why Amazon Is Such A Huge Success". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2014.

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• If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Perseverance, Thinking, Long

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• The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Business, Entrepreneur

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Long, Accomplish

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• We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Vision, Details

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• If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

  Jeff Bezos

  Long, Interest, Term

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

  Jeff Bezos

  Decision, Hierarchy, Facts

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• Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

  Jeff Bezos

  Ideas, Problem, Harder

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• Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Reality, Encounters

  "Turning Obstacles into Opportunities" by André Borschberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

  Jeff Bezos

  Past, Matter, Enterprise

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