Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneur

1964-01-12

American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in 1994 and later served as its chief executive before becoming executive chairman. He also founded the aerospace company Blue Origin. His work has been central to the growth of e-commerce and cloud computing.

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Quotes by Jeff Bezos

The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.
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Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.
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I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
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The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.
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Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.
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I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'
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Strip malls are history.
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
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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.
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
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The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.
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If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
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You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
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The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
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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.
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Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.
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