You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, Amazon as a whole has become - has been successful, and across a few different business segments, but simply because… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the early 2000s, we were finding at Amazon that software development projects were taking us longer than we thought they should.… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
If you're flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it's a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
The vast majority of companies will not own their own data centers in the fullness of time. All that computing is moving… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
I mean it's easy to have a website. It's inexpensive to do so, and most of the small businesses have that, but… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You just can't learn certain lessons until you get to different elbows of the curve in scale. With a business that most… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
The company has been clear from the start that we try to serve customers long-term, and long-term investors are going to be… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When you look at whether a company is a monopoly or not, the first thing you look at is what kind of… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business -… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
A lot of competitors of various Amazon businesses use AWS. We don't view that as a problem. We very consciously want any… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
What I did know from having started businesses before Amazon, as well as from my time at Amazon, was that when you… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you're just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to trying to… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it's a really… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company, it's very… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they'd be treated as every bit as important a customer as Amazon the… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
For us, employee safety is priority number one for us in our fulfillment centers. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
