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
I'm barely making ends meet. How can I start a business?
In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.
I now believe it's possible that the current rules governing business-method and software patents could end up harming us all, ... despite the call from many thoughtful folks for us to give up our patents unilaterally, I don't believe it would be right for us to do so.
For the fifth consecutive quarter, we saw substantial improvements in our operations and bottom-line performance, ... Electronics demonstrated especially strong growth and improvements.
If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.
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.
The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.
There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Ebooks had to happen.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
For people who are readers, reading is important to them.