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
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
Your margin is my opportunity.
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.
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Work hard, have fun and make history.
Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.