Jeff Bezos Quotes - Page 6

Quotes about:

• We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Watches, Copies

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  Motivation, Common, Easy

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. May 14, 2001.

  12 Copy quote

• We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

  Jeff Bezos

  Positive, Impact, Important

  21 Copy quote

• I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

  Jeff Bezos

  Boys, Years, Internet

  4 Copy quote

• We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

  Jeff Bezos

  Fun, Team, Counting

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Passion, Engineering, Years

  "Amazon's Jeff Bezos Discovers Historic Apollo 11 Rocket Engines at the Bottom of the Sea". www.theatlantic.com. March 28, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

• There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Needs, Maps

  "'Washington Post' To Be Sold To Amazon's Jeff Bezos". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. August 5, 2013.

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  Skills, Two, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  29 Copy quote

• Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Internet, Company

  5 Copy quote

• It's harder to be kind than clever

  Jeff Bezos

  Clever, Be Kind, Kind

  14 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

• When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Thinking, Showers

  21 Copy quote

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Real, Keys, Cost

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Amazon's Jeff Bezos". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

  17 Copy quote

• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

  Jeff Bezos

  Communication, Reality, Leader

  9 Copy quote

• It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Writing, Self

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

  10 Copy quote

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Simple, Want, Simple Things

  12 Copy quote

• If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.

  Jeff Bezos

  Errors, Servant Leadership, Obsessed

  14 Copy quote

• If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

  Jeff Bezos

  Educational, Stay Focused, Customer Satisfaction

  23 Copy quote

• When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.

  Jeff Bezos

  Meaningful, Reflection, Quiet Moments

  "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon". Book by Brad Stone, October 15, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  15 Copy quote

• I never worked on the school newspaper.

  Jeff Bezos

  School, Newspapers

  5 Copy quote

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Missions, Skeptical, Centerpieces

  "Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper". Interview with Paul Farhi, www.washingtonpost.com. September 3, 2013.

  12 Copy quote

• I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Thinking, People

  10 Copy quote

• There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

  Jeff Bezos

  Ideas, People, Stuff

  "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon". Book by Brad Stone, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

• If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, Space, Peers

  14 Copy quote

Page 6 of 9

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin