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
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.