50 Jeff Bezos Quotes To Start A Company 2024

1. “People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.” ― Jeff Bezos

2. “Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.”― Jeff Bezos

3. “You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you are going to innovate.”― Jeff Bezos

4. “If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.” ― Jeff Bezos

5. “Be stubborn on the long-term vision, but flexible on the details.” ― Jeff Bezos

6. “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 Customer Experience a little better.” ― Jeff Bezos

7. “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

8. “Your brand is what people say about you after you leave the room.” ― Jeff Bezos

9. “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.” ― Jeff Bezos

10. “My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” ― Jeff Bezos

11. “If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.” ― Jeff Bezos

12. “Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make.” ― Jeff Bezos

13. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.” ― Jeff Bezos

14. “If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.” ― Jeff Bezos

15. “There are two kinds of retailers: those folks who work to figure out how to charge more, and companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second.” ― Jeff Bezos

16. “The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.” ― Jeff Bezos

17. “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.” ― Jeff Bezos

18. “If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.” ― Jeff Bezos

19. “if you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” ― Jeff Bezos

20. “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” ― Jeff Bezos

21. “There’ll always be serendipity involved in the discovery.”― Jeff Bezos

22. “A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.” ― Jeff Bezos

23. “If you don’t understand the details of your business, you are going to fail.” ― Jeff Bezos

24. Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan. ” ― Jeff Bezos

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

26. “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 has it drive a million miles.” ― Jeff Bezos

27. “If we think long-term we can accomplish things that we wouldn’t otherwise accomplish. Time horizons matter. They matter a lot.” ― Jeff Bezos

28. “In order to be a two-hundred-billion-dollar company, we’ve got to learn how to sell clothes and food.” ― Jeff Bezos

29. “Complaining is not a strategy.” ― Jeff Bezos

30. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” ― Jeff Bezos

31. “Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.”― Jeff Bezos

32. “Patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.” ― Jeff Bezos

33. “What we need to do is always look into the future.” ― Jeff Bezos

34. “Are you lazy or just incompetent.” ― Jeff Bezos[/pullquote]

35. “Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.” ― Jeff Bezos

36. “It’s so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as the book and improve on it.” ― Jeff Bezos

37. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.” ― Jeff Bezos

38. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don’t do anything new.” ― Jeff Bezos

39. “You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.” ― Jeff Bezos

40. “One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” ― Jeff Bezos

41. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” ― Jeff Bezos

42. “There are two kinds of companies – those that work to raise process and those that work to lower them.” ― Jeff Bezos

43. “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

44. “We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices.” ― Jeff Bezos

45. “Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer.” ― Jeff Bezos

46. “Invention by its very nature is disruptive.” ― Jeff Bezos

47. “The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.” ― Jeff Bezos

48. “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.” ― Jeff Bezos

49. “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you, it just works.”

50. “Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.” ― Jeff Bezos

51. “Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.” ― Jeff Bezos