We all know Jeff Bezos as the founder of Amazon one of the world’s most successful companies. His life story is inspirational for anyone wanting to start something of their own and become successful. Through these inspirational Jeff Bezos quotes you will be able to learn a lot about different aspects of life from opportunities, success, and hard work.
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Best Jeff Bezos Quotes
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn a reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon.
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.
Your margin is my opportunity.
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.
Luck plays an outsized role in every endeavor, and I can assure you we’ve had a bountiful supply.
If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
Invention by its very nature is disruptive.
Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
Work hard, have fun, and make history.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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.
If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunities on the table.
People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.
In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
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What’s very dangerous is not to evolve.
I have no special talent,” Einstein once said. “I am only passionately curious.
People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ordinary.
Business Quotes by Jeff Bezos
In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.
The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you, it just works.
No customer was asking for Echo. This was definitely us wandering. Market research doesn’t help.
We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs.
You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling.
We don’t focus on the optics of the next quarter; we focus on what is going to be good for customers.
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
An E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
If you’re long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
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Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer.
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.
Culture isn’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
Obsess about customers, not competitors.
It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online.
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you’re going to invent, you’re going to disrupt.
So, the four elements of high standards as we see it: they are teachable, they are domain specific, you must recognize them, and you must explicitly coach realistic scope.
The process is not the thing. It’s always worth asking, do we own the process or does the process own us?
In my view, Amazon’s culture is unusually supportive of small businesses with big potential, and I believe that’s a source of competitive advantage.
