The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you’re going to invent, you’re going to… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes:… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because,… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
