Jeff Bezos Quotes

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren'... -Jeff Bezos

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Strip malls are history.... -Jeff Bezos

Strip malls are history.

Discovering the context

This quote suggests that strip malls, a prevalent type of commercial development, have become outdated or irrelevant, implying that they no longer represent the contemporary or future direction of urban design and development. It implies a shift in preferences and an acknowledgment of changing societal and architectural trends.

I've always been at the intersection of computers ... -Jeff Bezos

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

I believe you have to be willing to be misundersto... -Jeff Bezos

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

I grew up reading science fiction.... -Jeff Bezos

I grew up reading science fiction.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and... -Jeff Bezos

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to w... -Jeff Bezos

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Great industries are never made from single compan... -Jeff Bezos

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.... -Jeff Bezos

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

I don't know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that's why that's Blue Origin's mission.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.... -Jeff Bezos

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

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