Jeff Bezos Quotes

• It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.-Jeff Bezos
• I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.-Jeff Bezos
• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.-Jeff Bezos
• 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.-Jeff Bezos
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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.-Jeff Bezos
• The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.-Jeff Bezos
• If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.-Jeff Bezos
• I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.-Jeff Bezos

• 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
• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.-Jeff Bezos
• Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.-Jeff Bezos
• If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.-Jeff Bezos
• A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.-Jeff Bezos
 

• A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you'll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn't sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren's grandchildren to live in.-Jeff Bezos
• 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
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• Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.-Jeff Bezos
• You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.-Jeff Bezos
• I'm a genetic optimist.-Jeff Bezos
• I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.-Jeff Bezos
• The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?'-Jeff Bezos
• Strip malls are history.-Jeff Bezos
• I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.-Jeff Bezos
• I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.-Jeff Bezos
• Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.-Jeff Bezos
• I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.-Jeff Bezos
• 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
• I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.-Jeff Bezos
• 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
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• My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.-Jeff Bezos
• Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.-Jeff Bezos
• I grew up reading science fiction.-Jeff Bezos
• We're taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.-Jeff Bezos
• In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.-Jeff Bezos
• Ebooks had to happen.-Jeff Bezos
• The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.-Jeff Bezos
• For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.-Jeff Bezos
• You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.-Jeff Bezos
• The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.-Jeff Bezos
• You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.-Jeff Bezos
• Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.-Jeff Bezos
• Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.-Jeff Bezos
• I think the definition of a book is changing.-Jeff Bezos
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• You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.-Jeff Bezos
• I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.-Jeff Bezos
• We're working on New Glenn, which is our orbital vehicle, but we have in our mind's eye an even bigger vehicle called New Armstrong.-Jeff Bezos
• One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn't work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.-Jeff Bezos

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Blue Origin

Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup, Bezos’ brain child was launched in 2000. It has its launch and test facility in West Texas. It has made very advanced private spaceflights. In December 2017 a new possibility was witnessed by the world when New Shepard - space vehicle successfully flew and landed back safely with dummy passengers. Bezos hopes to colonize the solar system and make earth animal sanctuary and the human species multi-planetary.

Family life

Bezos married MacKenzie Tuttle in 1993 in Manhattan. A year later they moved to Seattle and founded Amazon. They are parents to four children: three sons and one daughter adopted from China. In 2019, the couple got divorced officially after long term separation. Post divorce Bezos has voting rights and 75% of the couple's Amazon stock and MacKenzie gets the remaining 25%.

Lifestyle

Bezos’ other ventures are The Washington Post, Bezos Expeditions, Altos Labs among many others. The world knows him as founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the world's largest online shopping retailer, Amazon.com. From 2010 onwards he became a public figure that the world was inspired to be. Public perception of him was a symbolically dominant figure in business and in popular culture. From 2000 onwards he got recognition and accolades. He was ranked best-performing CEO in the world for five years starting from 2014.

Jeff Bezos is a self made man with not much inherited wealth. He worked hard and wisely to become the richest man on earth. His quotes give us an insight about how important planning and working hard to reach the goal is. Share these strong motivational thoughts of Jeff Bezos with your friends, family, colleagues and well wishers and help them get inspired to do big in life.