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
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
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.
You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
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.
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.
We try to be a pure investment and a long-term decision making company. No company cares more about profitability than Amazon.com. But I also want to make the most of our opportunity and we would hate to be short-sighted about that,
We're taking no chances in marketing this holiday season,
very happy as an independent company and very focused on continuing to be an independent company.
We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics, ... What we did was a random price test, and even that was a mistake because it created uncertainty for customers rather than simplifying their lives.