47 Inspirational Jeff Bezos Quotes On Success

Jeff Bezos is a retail entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, which has become the world’s largest online shopping retailer. The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales website. He has a net worth of $69.6 billion. May these Jeff Bezos Quotes inspire you to get started with your dreams.

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

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

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

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

5. “There are two kinds of companies – those that work to raise process and those that work to lower them.” Jeff Bezos

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

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

8. “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

9. “We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices.” Jeff Bezos

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

11. “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

12. “Your margin is my opportunity.” Jeff Bezos

13. “In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.” Jeff Bezos

14. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” Jeff Bezos

15. “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” Jeff Bezos

16. “We have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter.” Jeff Bezos

17. “Frugality drives innovation.” Jeff Bezos

18. “All businesses need to be forever.” Jeff Bezos

19. “Invention by it’s very nature is disruptive.” Jeff Bezos

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

21. “The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.” Jeff Bezos

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

23. “If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.” Jeff Bezos

24. “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

25. “Kindness is a choice.” Jeff Bezos

26. “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

27. “Patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.” Jeff Bezos

28. “What we need to do is always look into the future.” Jeff Bezos

29. “Are you lazy or just incompetent?” Jeff Bezos

30. “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

31. “Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.” Jeff Bezos

32. “It’s so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as the book and improve on it.” Jeff Bezos

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

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

35. “Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer.” Jeff Bezos

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

37. “Obsess about customers, not competitors.” Jeff Bezos

38. “This has the potential to be bigger than anything we’ve ever done.” Jeff Bezos

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

40. “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

41. “I like to be counted on.” Jeff Bezos

42. “Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details.” Jeff Bezos

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

44. “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

45. “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

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

47. “Work hard, have fun, and make history.” Jeff Bezos

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