Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jeff Bezos (American Businessman)

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (b.1964) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. This founder of the online retailer and web services provider Amazon.com and the aerospace company Blue Origin is the world’s wealthiest person.

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bezos was an avid reader and computer enthusiast who was enamored with space travel. After studying computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton, Bezos worked in the banking industry. He started Amazon.com in 1994 to capitalize on the up-and-coming internet as an opportunity for business.

Over the years, Amazon.com has played an essential role in helping transform the way people shop in our day. It has expanded into other retail categories, developed a remarkable cloud computing service, and ventured into digital media, enterprise software, and hardware devices. Amazon.com has attracted condemnation for brushing aside small retailers, and battering “high streets” around the world.

Bezos has used the fortune he made from Amazon.com to buy the Washington Post newspaper in 2014 and invest in space travel through Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000 to effect commercial space travel. He also invests in businesses through his venture fund Bezos Expeditions.

American journalist Brad Stone’s The Everything Store (2013) is a biography of Jeff Bezos and the retailing behemoth he created.

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Now there are a couple of other things that are essential for innovation and invention that are not as fun. One of them is you have to have a willingness to fail. You have to have a willingness to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
Jeff Bezos

Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow.
Jeff Bezos

We have an unusual business approach. We are not competitor obsessed. We are customer obsessed. We start with the customer and work backwards. We are willing to take a long-term point of view. We don’t need things to payback in just one or two or three years. We are not obsessed by quarterly earnings. We are willing to invent. And invention does take a certain amount of willingness. You have to be willing to be misunderstood. You have to be willing to fail. But invention is really important.
Jeff Bezos

If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.
Jeff Bezos

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

You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Jeff Bezos

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
Jeff Bezos

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos
Topics: Reputation

If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
Jeff Bezos

There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.
Jeff Bezos

One of the first rules of business is ‘Complaining is not a strategy.’ You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
Jeff Bezos

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos
Topics: Customers

Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at.
Jeff Bezos

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