A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you're just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You just can't learn certain lessons until you get to different elbows of the curve in scale. With a business that most… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
The vast majority of companies will not own their own data centers in the fullness of time. All that computing is moving… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Tennis is very much a meritocracy. There's no favoritism, there's no politics. You either win or lose based on how you perform… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
What I did know from having started businesses before Amazon, as well as from my time at Amazon, was that when you… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
In the past we've tried to hire people in locations where we have critical mass, because we thought it was better for… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you're just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to trying to… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it's a really… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company, it's very… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they'd be treated as every bit as important a customer as Amazon the… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
For us, employee safety is priority number one for us in our fulfillment centers. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
