Jeff Bezos Quotes

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

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

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

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.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, "˜OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.' And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work

I'd rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.