Best 193 quotes of Jeff Bezos on MyQuotes

Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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

Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

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

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.

But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!

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

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

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.

Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

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.

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

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

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

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system.

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.

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

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

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.

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

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.

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