Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
I think it's scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in U.S. businesses and potential credit ratings if we don't make sure… — Andy Jassy Confidence Copy Share Image
We don't think of HQ1 being Seattle any longer. We really think of it as Puget Sound. — Andy Jassy Being Copy Share Image
We always had a lot of optimism for this game, New World.' Customers really liked it; it tested really well. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
When you look at whether a company is a monopoly or not, the first thing you look at is what kind of… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
It's incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny. — Andy Jassy Control Copy Share Image
Customers or employees are free to shoot me email. I may not respond to every single one because sometimes the numbers are… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral… — Andy Jassy Ability 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… — Andy Jassy Ability Copy Share Image
Tennis was a particularly interesting growing-up experience. It's actually a difficult way of growing up because it's such an individual sport. It… — Andy Jassy Experience Copy Share Image
Even when we go back to having meetings in person, we will continue to incorporate a lot of the things we learned… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
AWS moves fast, listens to customers, and creates value on top of our already successful cloud-computing infrastructure. We're consistently thinking two to… — Andy Jassy Cloud computing Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
I took my last final exam at HBS, the first Friday of May in 1997, and I started Amazon next Monday. No,… — Andy Jassy Friday Copy Share Image
People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never… — Andy Jassy People Copy Share Image
A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business -… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You can't just go careening toward your idea without checking in with customers and people who might use it and making sure… — Andy Jassy Customer 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 Favoritism Copy Share Image
We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where… — Andy Jassy Being Copy Share Image
I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is… — Andy Jassy Christmas Copy Share Image
If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth. — 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… — Andy Jassy Football Copy Share Image
You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do. — Andy Jassy Challenge Copy Share Image
You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move. — Andy Jassy Business 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… — Andy Jassy Customer Copy Share Image
When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change… — Andy Jassy Business 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 Belief 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
At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until… — 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 Civil liberties Copy Share Image
Simply because Amazon decides to pursue a market segment doesn't mean the customers are going to spend their money there, and so… — Andy Jassy Amazing Copy Share Image
We've had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we've never had… — Andy Jassy Law Copy Share Image
We feel like we experienced probably two to three years of growth in 18 months. You couldn't probably responsibly plan for a… — 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… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
It's easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which… — Andy Jassy Changing the world Copy Share Image
During the pandemic in our fulfillment centers, we had a system and a process around people being able to request short and… — Andy Jassy Being Copy Share Image
In the early 2000s, we were finding at Amazon that software development projects were taking us longer than we thought they should.… — Andy Jassy Business Copy Share Image
