Jeff Bezos Quote by Brad Stone

“While he was charming and capable of great humor in public, in private, Bezos could bite an employee’s head right off.”

— Brad Stone

“He says Bezos takes a red pen to press releases, product descriptions, speeches, and shareholder letters, crossing out anything that does not speak simply…

— Brad Stone

“«“So, Sally, what’s new around here?” “Jeff Bezos just sold off two million shares.” “So, why would our sci-fi paperback bookseller need to sell…

— Bruce Sterling

When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing…

— Marc Randolph

“Bezos took a series of odd jobs throughout high school. One summer he famously worked as a fryer at a local McDonald’s, learning, among…

— Brad Stone

“Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazon’s story in this extended…

— Ben Horowitz

“In the copy he brought to Kathryn Dalzell, he had underlined one particular passage in which Walton described borrowing the best ideas of his…

— Brad Stone

“On Monday morning, I rode the elevator up nine stories while fantasizing about a Marxist uprising where temps took control of the means of…

— Steven Barker

“The junior executives recommended a variety of different techniques to foster cross-group dialogue and afterward seemed proud of their own ingenuity. Then Jeff Bezos,…

— Brad Stone

“Bezos insisted the company needed to master anything that touched the hallowed customer experience, and he resisted any efforts to project profitability.”

— Brad Stone

“Miller knew nothing about toy retailing, but in a pattern that would recur over and over, Bezos didn’t care. He was looking for versatile…

— Brad Stone

“If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.” —Jeff Bezos”

— Jean-Paul Isson