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 watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
Infrastructure web services had to happen.