Jeff Bezos Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.”

“You want your customers to value your service.”

“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.”

“The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.”

“If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”

“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.”

“I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.”

“Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”

“I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.”

“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.”