I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg. — 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
If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later. — 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… — 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
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such 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've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't… — 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
Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to… — 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
Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think… — 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
You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want… — 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
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
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
