Latest Jeff Bezos Quotes from Interviews

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• I love my life. I love being an inventor.

  Jeff Bezos

  Love Is, Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

  Source: www.billboard.com

• The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

  Jeff Bezos

  Technology, Done, World

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

  "The Customer Is Always Right". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2009.

• There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Shopping, People, Online

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2002.

• If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Numbers, Looks

• If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Mouths, Word Of Mouth

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

• I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Law, Mp3

• Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

  Jeff Bezos

  Able, Easy, Hard

• If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

  Jeff Bezos

  Long, Internet, Term

• The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

  Jeff Bezos

  Technology, Important, Retail

  "Speaking Out: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos". The BusinessWeek Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

• I think if people read more, that is a better world.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, People, World

  "Exclusive: Our own Len Edgerly interviews Amazon’s Jeff Bezos live in the KND Kindle Chronicles Interview". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.

• One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Knowing, Expectations

  "Article of Faith: If people read more, that is a better world". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.