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I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Adversity Marriage Partnership

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Passion Zeal

The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Passion Zeal

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Business Ideation Startups

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Challenge Change Growth Tradition

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Culture Expectations

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Evolution Evolve

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Anxiety Risk Worry

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos E Mail Manners Politeness Technology

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

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Jeff Bezos Flexibility Vision

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

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Jeff Bezos Career Entrepreneurship Owcareers

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Goal Setting Prospective Risk

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Criticism Life Long Learning

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Customer Service Marketing Reputation

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Brand Branding Marketing

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos History Risk Tradition

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Good Why Question

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Believe I Believe You

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.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Work Learning Good

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Details You Fail

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Positive Impact Important

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.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Work Try Two

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos People Settle Mars

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Great Winners Single

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Push Lottery Little

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Whatever Always

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Know You Experiment

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Long Think You

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Brain Human Brain Human

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Service Customer You

Strip malls are history.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Malls Strip

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.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Day Job Party

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Great Powerful You

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Stronger Higher Revenue

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

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Think Product Different

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.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Data Drive You

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Evolve Dangerous

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.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Light Thinking World

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

~ Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Vacation Evil Walk
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