Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

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.

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.