• Quotes Jeff Bezos

  • Feb 11 2025
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Quotes Jeff Bezos

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

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

    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 human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

    We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

    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.

    If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

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

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

    The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

    Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

    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.
    The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
    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.

    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.

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