Andy Jassy

For us, employee safety is priority number one for us in our fulfillment centers.

— Andy Jassy

I think our relationship with Seattle has had ups and downs frankly.

— Andy Jassy

We've led the way in the $15 minimum wage.

— Andy Jassy

I think you need a leadership team that is absolutely ravenous to get at the truth.

— Andy Jassy

You have to know what competitors are doing in your space.

— Andy Jassy

You have to be willing to have failures along the way.

— Andy Jassy

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

— Andy Jassy

Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years.

— Andy Jassy

If you do any thorough, apples-to-apples, objective comparison of AWS versus Microsoft, you don't come out deciding that they're comparable platforms.

— Andy Jassy

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

— Andy Jassy

You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's…

— Andy Jassy

I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology.

— Andy Jassy

Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it's not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and…

— Andy Jassy

Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't.

— Andy Jassy

I think if you have a large group of people like we do - we have 1.2 million employees - it's almost…

— Andy Jassy

For me, it was valuable just to be able to watch how Jeff operated every day, as well as his leaders and…

— Andy Jassy

Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it's…

— Andy Jassy

In the early 2000s, we were finding at Amazon that software development projects were taking us longer than we thought they should.…

— Andy Jassy

During the pandemic in our fulfillment centers, we had a system and a process around people being able to request short and…

— Andy Jassy

It's easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which…

— Andy Jassy

Simply because Amazon decides to pursue a market segment doesn't mean the customers are going to spend their money there, and so…

— Andy Jassy

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a…

— Andy Jassy

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the…

— Andy Jassy

At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until…

— Andy Jassy

Before, companies and startups had to lay up all this capital for data centers and servers, and take your scarce resource, which…

— Andy Jassy

I think that always our focus is gonna be the customers.

— Andy Jassy

When you experience great voice apps, it makes tapping on an app so circa 2005.

— Andy Jassy

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

— Andy Jassy

We started to consider what became Amazon Web Services between 2000 and 2003.

— Andy Jassy

There is insatiable demand for AWS cloud services.

— Andy Jassy

In our business, you have to be able to have access to capital.

— Andy Jassy

When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment.

— Andy Jassy

It's not a surprise to us that every large technology company is trying to build an offering like AWS' because it's such…

— Andy Jassy

We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site.

— Andy Jassy

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

— Andy Jassy

With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field.

— Andy Jassy

Between what we do with Alexa and what we do in the living room, I think we have an opportunity to change…

— Andy Jassy

Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter.

— Andy Jassy

Jeff is an incredibly unusual leader who is unbelievably talented and I learned a massive amount.

— Andy Jassy

When you have a new idea that hasn't been done before, you need that conviction, that blind faith that it could work.

— Andy Jassy