Top 30 Jeff Bezos Quotes on Success, Entrepreneurship and Business
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About Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos, known as the richest person in history, is an American internet entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. Bezos was the first person in modern history to accumulate a fortune of over $100 billion. He is best known as the founder, CEO, and president of the multinational technology company Amazon. ( 1)
Bezos, the wealthiest person alive, is now richer than he’s ever been. Jeff Bezos’s net worth is $184.5B. In 2019, Amazon notched $280.5 billion in revenues and a record of $11.5 billion in net profit.
Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is developing rockets for commercial use.
The Everything Store is the story of Amazon, from its founding by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore to its rise as a commerce giant. The book also covers a number of Amazon and Bezos’s management techniques. ( Get the audiobook for free.)
Jeff Bezos Quotes
Here are the most powerful success lessons from the Jeff Bezos quotes:
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
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If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And 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.
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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passion; your passion chooses you.
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One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
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The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.
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We have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter.
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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.
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If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And 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.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
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The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.
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E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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Are you lazy or just incompetent.
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If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter, I think, in any business. It certainly matters online, where word-of-mouth is so very, very powerful.
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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
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Obsess about customers, not competitors.
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.
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Focus on cost improvement makes it possible for us to afford lower prices, which drives growth. Growth spreads fixed costs across more sales, reducing cost per unit, which makes possible more price reductions. Customers like this, and it’s good for shareholders. Please expect us to repeat this loop.
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We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
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Work Hard, have fun, make history.
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If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
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Your margin is my opportunity.
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I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
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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.
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Originally published at https://motiveex.com on August 4, 2020.
