80 Mind Blowing Jeff Bezos Inspirational Quotes

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80 Mind Blowing Jeff Bezos Inspirational Quotes

We always find inspirational quotes of famous personalities, stars or businessman like Jeffrey Preston Bezos (Jeff Bezos) on google who is the CEO of amazon also world’s richest person. When we really want to be motivate ourself to achieving our goals, great quotes can help to inspire or motivate in life and it also help us to guide our decisions.

Driving yourself towards your desired ambition may need hardwork, focus and patience. But one more thing that can add to your success drive is the inspirational quotes.

So here is the 80 mind blowing inspirational quotes by jeff bezos.

1“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”Jeff Bezos

2“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

3“What we need to do is always lean into the future; 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

4“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.” – Jeff Bezos

5“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

6“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

7“My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” – Jeff Bezos

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

9“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

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

11“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.” – Jeff Bezos

12“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.” – Jeff Bezos

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

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

15“What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos

16“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.” – Jeff Bezos

17“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

18“I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.” – Jeff Bezos

19“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.” – Jeff Bezos

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

21“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.” – Jeff Bezos

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

23“My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.” – Jeff Bezos

24“Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.” – Jeff Bezos

25“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.” – Jeff Bezos

26“You want your customers to value your service.” – Jeff Bezos

27“Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.” – Jeff Bezos

28“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.” – Jeff Bezos

29“Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.” – Jeff Bezos

30“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details…” – Jeff Bezos

31“If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.”Jeff Bezos

32“If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.” – Jeff Bezos

33“On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It’s very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.” – Jeff Bezos

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

35“If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.” – Jeff Bezos

36“Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.”Jeff Bezos

3737. “Your margin is my opportunity.” – Jeff Bezos

38“The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies… The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.” – Jeff Bezos

39“If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.” – Jeff Bezos

40“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

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

42“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

43“In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.” – Jeff Bezos

44“It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.” – Jeff Bezos

45“Work Hard, have fun, make history.”Jeff Bezos

46“Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.” – Jeff Bezos

47“We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.” – Jeff Bezos

48“Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.” – Jeff Bezos

49“The framework I found, which made the decision (to start Amazon in 1994) incredibly easy, was what I called a regret minimization framework. I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimize 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.” – Jeff Bezos

50“Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.” – Jeff Bezos

51“When (competitors are) in the shower in the morning, they’re thinking about how they’re going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we’re thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.” – Jeff Bezos

52“If you’re long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.” – Jeff Bezos

53“Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. You do something that you genuinely believe in, that you have conviction about, but for a long period of time, well-meaning people may criticize that effort. When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.” – Jeff Bezos

54“You want to look at what other companies are doing. It’s very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don’t want to look at it as if, ‘OK, we’re going to copy that.’ You want to look at it and say, ‘That’s very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?’ And then put your own unique twist on it.” – Jeff Bezos

55“The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.” – Jeff Bezos

56“Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.” – Jeff Bezos

57“Another thing that I would recommend to people is that they always take a long-term point of view. I think this is something about which there’s a lot of controversy. A lot of people — and I’m just not one of them — believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me. There are a lot of paths to satisfaction and you need to find one that works for you.” – Jeff Bezos

58“You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives (that) encourage ideas. In order for innovative ideas to bear fruit, companies need to be willing to “wait for 5-7 years, and most companies don’t take that time horizon.” – Jeff Bezos

59“I want to see good financial returns, but also to me there’s the extra psychic return of having my creativity and technological vision bear fruit and change the world in a positive way.” – Jeff Bezos

60“You know if you make a customer unhappy, they won’t tell five friends, they’ll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don’t, it will be shame on us.” – Jeff Bezos

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

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

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

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

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

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

67“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.” Jeff Bezos

68“Amazon strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.” Jeff Bezos

69“I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.” Jeff Bezos

70“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.” Jeff Bezos

71“You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.” Jeff Bezos

72“Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.” Jeff Bezos

73“You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.” Jeff Bezos

74“When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.” Jeff Bezos

75“I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.” Jeff Bezos

76“The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.” Jeff Bezos

77“I think the definition of a book is changing.” Jeff Bezos

78“The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.” Jeff Bezos

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

80“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.”