It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology,… — 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
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
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 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
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often — Jeff Bezos Copy Share
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
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
We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share
One of the things that I'm very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share
I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share
