Andy Jassy

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

I think our relationship with Seattle has had ups and downs frankly.

— Andy Jassy

We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like…

— Andy Jassy

Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it's…

— Andy Jassy

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

— Andy Jassy

Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better…

— Andy Jassy

When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company,…

— Andy Jassy

The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they'd be treated as every bit as important a customer as…

— Andy Jassy

Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years.

— Andy Jassy

For us, employee safety is priority number one for us in our fulfillment centers.

— Andy Jassy

You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do.

— Andy Jassy

I think that always our focus is gonna be the customers.

— Andy Jassy

Before, companies and startups had to lay up all this capital for data centers and servers, and take your scarce resource, which…

— Andy Jassy

These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require…

— Andy Jassy

Even when we go back to having meetings in person, we will continue to incorporate a lot of the things we learned…

— Andy Jassy

We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had…

— Andy Jassy

During the pandemic in our fulfillment centers, we had a system and a process around people being able to request short and…

— Andy Jassy

I think that there are a number of older-guard technology companies who either genuinely believe or are hoping people will believe that…

— Andy Jassy

I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid.

— Andy Jassy

If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the…

— Andy Jassy

We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where…

— Andy Jassy

In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a…

— Andy Jassy

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

In our business, you have to be able to have access to capital.

— Andy Jassy

Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral…

— Andy Jassy