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
You've taken 16 years off of your life by smoking.
This is an incredible and humbling honor. The Internet holds the promise to improve lives and empower people. I feel very lucky to be involved in this time of rapid and amazing change.
This is the cheapest and easiest way to have an Internet (sales) strategy. This solves all the problems. We charge the customer's credit card and deposit the money directly into your bank account.
A year from now Barnes & Noble won't even consider us a direct competitor, ... What we're trying to do is invent the future of e-commerce.
Ultimately publishers and copyright holders will get to make those decisions about how much those pages cost,
Ultimately for each individual book, pricing will be up to the copyright holders, ... The copyright holders are the ones who get to make these decisions.
In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.
Improvements in the year 2000 will not only be visible in terms of new products and services but should also likely be visible financially as well.
I'm barely making ends meet. How can I start a business?
Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,
In September, 6 of the 10 top-selling items on Amazon.com were from our electronics store.
In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere,
In January, we shifted money from TV and print advertising to customers through lower prices and free shipping, ... We're pleased with the results.
For the fifth consecutive quarter, we saw substantial improvements in our operations and bottom-line performance, ... Electronics demonstrated especially strong growth and improvements.