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
This single individual completely changed something. That's the kind of thing people can do anywhere. They can do it in Seattle; they can do it in North Dakota.
We have had so many discussions with so many different publishers that it isn't practical to keep it under wraps, ... Too many people know about it.
When there's uncertainty in the economy, people get very rational about their spending.
We will continue to invest in systems, people and product expansion, each of which helps us better serve customers, ... For the rest of 1999, we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.
Our role is to help people discover music,
Our vision first and foremost is to be the Earth's most customer-centric company and then, within that, to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything and everything that they might want to buy online,
If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.
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.
For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.