Jeff Bezos

I'm a genetic optimist.

— Jeff Bezos

Obsess about customers, not competitors.

— Jeff Bezos

No, communication is terrible!

— Jeff Bezos

Work hard, have fun and make history.

— Jeff Bezos

I grew up reading science fiction.

— Jeff Bezos

I love my life. I love being an inventor.

— Jeff Bezos

I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

— Jeff Bezos

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

— Jeff Bezos

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

— Jeff Bezos

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

— Jeff Bezos

You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not

— Jeff Bezos

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

— Jeff Bezos

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

The people who are right a lot often change their minds.

— Jeff Bezos

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

— Jeff Bezos

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

— Jeff Bezos

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can…

— Jeff Bezos

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

— Jeff Bezos

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions;…

— Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

— Jeff Bezos

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

— Jeff Bezos

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

— Jeff Bezos

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a…

— Jeff Bezos

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans,…

— Jeff Bezos

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit.…

— Jeff Bezos

But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I…

— Jeff Bezos

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word…

— Jeff Bezos

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes:…

— Jeff Bezos

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but…

— Jeff Bezos

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I…

— Jeff Bezos

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology,…

— Jeff Bezos

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise…

— Jeff Bezos

“The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And…

— Jeff Bezos

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do…

— Jeff Bezos

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if…

— Jeff Bezos

“I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' And that is a very interesting question;…

— Jeff Bezos

Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share…

— Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think…

— Jeff Bezos

We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe…

— Jeff Bezos