Business Quotes by Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

— Jeff Bezos

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet…

— Jeff Bezos

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

— Jeff Bezos

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

— Jeff Bezos

For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the…

— Jeff Bezos

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

— Jeff Bezos

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much…

— Jeff Bezos

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally…

— Jeff Bezos

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in…

— 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

One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy.…

— Jeff Bezos

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

The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are…

— 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

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

— Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

— Jeff Bezos

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

— 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

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

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

— Jeff Bezos

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

— Jeff Bezos

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

— Jeff Bezos

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to…

— Jeff Bezos

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

— Jeff Bezos

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

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the…

— Jeff Bezos