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 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.
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
People don't want gadgets, they want services.
You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.