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
Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,
In September, 6 of the 10 top-selling items on Amazon.com were from our electronics store.
Improvements in the year 2000 will not only be visible in terms of new products and services but should also likely be visible financially as well.
The earth's most customer-centric company is figuring out what the customer wants and how to give it to them, ... By offering a universal selection of products, we can do something online that you could never do in the physical world.
You want your customers to value your service.
These price cuts ... do pressure our margins, but at the same time what they do is drive a lot of volume which helps us because we have a high fixed-cost structure,
This has the potential to be bigger than anything we've ever done.
This is a long-term contractual alliance, ... This is quite different from a merger. We don't know anything about running physical stores, our strategies are different and we are focused on a broad array of products, not just one.
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.
In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere,
In January, we shifted money from TV and print advertising to customers through lower prices and free shipping, ... We're pleased with the results.
What's dangerous is not to evolve.