Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform
Not the outcome any of us wanted.
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
The people who are right a lot often change their minds.
We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’. So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.
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.
I think if people read more, that is a better world.
Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.
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.