Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard. — 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
If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth. — 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
When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy… — 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