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 are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
In the end, we are our choices
What's dangerous is not to evolve.
If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.
Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
It's hard to find things that won't sell online.
Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.