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Jeff Bezos
14 quotes
“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 replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too..”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper. September 2013
“That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors 17 September, 2013.
“We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A.], … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Amazon's Jeff Bezos thinks about Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker (BoingBoing) (dubbed "The Bezos Principle" by Walt Mossberg) June 2016
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your margin is my opportunity.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When it comes to space, I see it as my job to build infrastructure the hard way — I'm using my resources to put in place heavy-lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. … I want thousands of entrepreneurs doing amazing things in space, and to do that we need to dramatically lower the cost of access to space.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Jeff Bezos thinks that to save the planet we'll need to move all heavy industry to space" by Jillian D'Onfro, in Insider (1 June 2016)
“The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains his famous one-character emails, known to strike fear in manager's hearts" by Julie Bort, Business Insider (21 April 2018)
“If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details... People who are right a lot change their mind... They have the same data set that they had at the beginning, but they wake up, and they re-analyze things all the time, and they come to a new conclusion, and then they change their mind.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Is Amazon Unstoppable? by Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker (10 October 2019)
“The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons was a discovery...It's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions. They're discoveries.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #405 - Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin", on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (14 December 2023)
“And I do like group invention. I think there's really nothing more fun than sitting at a whiteboard with a group of smart people and spitballing and coming up with new ideas and objections to those ideas, and then solutions to the objections and going back and forth.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #405 - Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin", on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (14 December 2023)
“AI is real and will change every industry. We are living in a golden age, and there is reason to be optimistic. There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur and start a start-up.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stefania Arcudi, Bezos: «L’intelligenza artificiale? Una bolla industriale, ma può essere positiva», ilsole24ore.com' ', 3 October 2025
“The top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the revenue. The bottom half pay only 3%. We have already, and I think it should be zero.”
Jeff Bezos (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source