Jeff Bezos Quotes
Biography:
Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquer... more
Biography:
Jeff Bezos is known as the founder of Amazon. Born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he graduated from Princeton University in 1986. In 1994, he launched Amazon, which revolutionized e-commerce. Bezos also founded Blue Origin, a space exploration company, and owns The Washington Post. less
Tags: Customer service, Customer satisfaction, Customer experience, Business philosophy, Hospitality
"If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition, taste, heart."Tags: Personal growth, Self-awareness, Personal development, Emotional intelligence, Decision making
"You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling. If you can somehow figure out how to have a calling, you have hit the jackpot, cause that’s the big deal.""If you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.""If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon.""Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention, but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there.""Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow.""If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own.""You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.""I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.""Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment.""I very frequently get the question, “What’s going to change in the next ten years?” And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question, “What’s not going to change in the next ten years?” And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two, because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.""When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.""We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent."Tags: Innovation, Business strategy, Product development, Customer satisfaction, Customer experience
"Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'"
