Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
Our garage was basically science fair central.
Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.
Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Obsess over customers.
Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
No communication is terrible!
The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.