50 Jeff Bezos Quotes on Leadership And Success

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Jeff Bezos Quotes: “Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, and investor. He is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon.”

“Jeff Bezos graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor in Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He has won awards such as Time magazine’s Person of the Year (1999), Fortune’s 2012 Business Person of the Year, 2014 Best CEO in the World Harvard Business Review.”

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Jeff Bezos Quotes

1. “If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.” – Jeff Bezos

2. “Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.” – Jeff Bezos

3. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos

4. “I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.” – Jeff Bezos

5. “Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.” – Jeff Bezos

6. “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”– Jeff Bezos

7. “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”– Jeff Bezos

8. “If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”– Jeff Bezos

9. “My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.” – Jeff Bezos

10. “Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.”– Jeff Bezos

Motivational Jeff Bezos Quotes

11. “We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….”– Jeff Bezos

12. “People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.”– Jeff Bezos

13. “What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” – Jeff Bezos

14. “The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?'”– Jeff Bezos

15. “..Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient..” -Jeff Bezos

16. “A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.” -Jeff Bezos

17. “Your margin is my opportunity.” -Jeff Bezos

18. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” -Jeff Bezos

19. “You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.” -Jeff Bezos

20. “Kindness is a choice.” -Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Quotes on Leadership

21. “If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.”
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22. “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” – Jeff Bezos

23. “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos

24. “If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.”– Jeff Bezos

25. “Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.”– Jeff Bezos

26. “We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.”– Jeff Bezos

27. “There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.” – Jeff Bezos

28. “..It’s the right business decision to experiment more..” -Jeff Bezos

29. “All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.”– Jeff Bezos

30. “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.” –Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Quotes on Success

31. “One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” – Jeff Bezos

32. “My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.”– Jeff Bezos

33. “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.” – Jeff Bezos

34. “The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.” – Jeff Bezos

35. “Work Hard, have fun, make history.” – Jeff Bezos

36. “I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.” -Jeff Bezos

37. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.” – Jeff Bezos

38. “Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.” – Jeff Bezos

39. “No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.” – Jeff Bezos

40. “Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.” – Jeff Bezos

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41. “The keys to success are patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.” -Jeff Bezos

42. “It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times” -Jeff Bezos

43. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest in themselves. You don’t choose your passions. Your passions choose you.” -Jeff Bezos

44. “Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” -Jeff Bezos

45. “Obsess about customers, not competitors.” -Jeff Bezos

46. “It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online.” -Jeff Bezos

47. “If you’re long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.”– Jeff Bezos

48. “All of my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts… not analysis.”– Jeff Bezos

49. “Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.” – Jeff Bezos

50. “There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”– Jeff Bezos