Jeff Bezos

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

— Jeff Bezos

Our garage was basically science fair central.

— Jeff Bezos

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

— Jeff Bezos

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

— Jeff Bezos

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

— Jeff Bezos

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

— Jeff Bezos

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

— Jeff Bezos

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

— Jeff Bezos

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we…

— Jeff Bezos

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting…

— Jeff Bezos

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

— Jeff Bezos

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will…

— Jeff Bezos

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

— Jeff Bezos

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

— Jeff Bezos

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking…

— Jeff Bezos

I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright…

— Jeff Bezos

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's…

— Jeff Bezos

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people…

— Jeff Bezos

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the…

— Jeff Bezos

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like…

— Jeff Bezos

I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is…

— Jeff Bezos

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has…

— Jeff Bezos

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how…

— Jeff Bezos

I think the definition of a book is changing.

— Jeff Bezos

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

— Jeff Bezos

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

— Jeff Bezos

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

— Jeff Bezos

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

— Jeff Bezos

Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

— Jeff Bezos

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

— Jeff Bezos

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

— Jeff Bezos

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

— Jeff Bezos

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

— Jeff Bezos

“We see our customers as invited guests to a party and we are the hosts.”

— Jeff Bezos

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

— Jeff Bezos

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

— Jeff Bezos

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

— Jeff Bezos

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

— Jeff Bezos

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

— Jeff Bezos