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Top Jeff Bezos Quotes

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Favorite Jeff Bezos Quotes

1. "Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new." ~ Jeff Bezos
2. "Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does." ~ Jeff Bezos
3. "People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often." ~ Jeff Bezos
4. "Work Hard, have fun, make history" ~ Jeff Bezos
5. "Your margin is my opportunity" ~ Jeff Bezos
6. "Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times." ~ Jeff Bezos
7. "The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of websites summarize that [work] in about four minutes and readers can access that news for free. One question is, how do you make a living in that kind of environment? If you can't, it's difficult to put the right resources behind it. ... Even behind a paywall, websites can summarize your work and make it available for free. From a reader point of view, the reader has to ask, 'Why should I pay you for all that journalistic effort when I can get it for free from another site?'" ~ Jeff Bezos
8. "As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you're going to invent, you're going to disrupt." ~ Jeff Bezos
9. "If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table." ~ Jeff Bezos
10. "When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?' And if they are, you need to adapt what they're doing. If they're not right, if you really have conviction that they're not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It's a key part of invention." ~ Jeff Bezos
11. "Cultures aren't so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people." ~ Jeff Bezos
12. "E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being." ~ Jeff Bezos
13. "We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details…." ~ Jeff Bezos
14. "We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode." ~ Jeff Bezos
15. "In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts." ~ Jeff Bezos
16. "No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in." ~ Jeff Bezos
17. "A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." ~ Jeff Bezos
18. "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful." ~ Jeff Bezos
19. "The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works." ~ Jeff Bezos
20. "I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface." ~ Jeff Bezos
21. "There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery." ~ Jeff Bezos
22. "Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful." ~ Jeff Bezos
23. "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
24. "If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering." ~ Jeff Bezos
25. "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
26. "I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out." ~ Jeff Bezos
27. "What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives." ~ Jeff Bezos
28. "My view is there's no bad time to innovate." ~ Jeff Bezos
29. "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
30. "The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was." ~ Jeff Bezos
31. "I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.' And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day." ~ Jeff Bezos
32. "What's dangerous is not to evolve." ~ Jeff Bezos
33. "Ebooks had to happen." ~ Jeff Bezos
34. "Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online." ~ Jeff Bezos

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