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Jeff Bezos Quotes

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“Your energy and ideas and competence and spirit turn me on. You make me better. You’re meant for me. I know it more clearly than I’ve ever known anything.”
— Jeff Bezos, Bezos Shared Wife’s Pillow Talk With Mistress, Boasted About U2’s Bono
Tagged: Wedding Vows, Cute Things To Say To Her, Ways To Say I Love You
“When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”
— Jeff Bezos, Commencement Address at Princeton University, 2010
Tagged: Speech, Aging, Commencement Speeches, Age, When You're Old, Thinking Back On Your Life
“Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
Tagged: Seeing The World for What It Is, Advice, strategy, Aphorisms, Seeing Seeing, What Is Obvious Is Most Hidden, Business, My Philosophy, Simple Is Complex
“The way that a story can make change is so much faster than the way that politics can make change. You create culture that has a story in it that says something as radical as ‘trans people are people’ and then laws follow.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jill Soloway, creator of Amazon’s ‘Transparent,’ can create political change. Jeff Bezos said so.
Tagged: Change, Politics, Content, LGBT
“If you can arrange to do big things with a multitude of small teams — that takes a lot of effort to organize, but if you can figure that out, the communication on those small teams will be very natural and easy.”
— Jeff Bezos, Leadership advice: How Amazon maintains focus while competing in so many industries at once
“And this planet is so small, if we want to keep growing as a civilisation, using more energy as a civilisation, most of that in the future needs to be done off-planet.”
— Jeff Bezos, What Jeff Bezos has to say to critics who want him to spend his money on Earth and not space
Tagged: More Than Earth
“We are culturally pioneers. We like to disrupt even our own business. Other companies have different cultures and sometimes don’t like to do that. Our job is to bring those industries along.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
Tagged: Technology
“I think we should build a permanent human settlement on one of the poles of the moon. It’s time to go back to the moon, but this time to stay.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos lays out a plan for settling the moon
Tagged: Predictions, Moon, Space Travel, Moon Colonization
“Peter Thiel is a contrarian. And you have to remember that contrarians are usually wrong.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos on Peter Thiel supporting Donald Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Donald J. Trump
“If you think that’s a big failure, we’re working on much bigger failures right now — and I am not kidding. Some of them are going to make the Fire Phone look like a tiny little blip.”
— Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on the Fire Phone: ‘We’re working on much bigger failures right now’
Tagged: Fire Phone, Amazon, Failure
“Beautiful speech doesn't need protection. Ugly 
speech needs protection.”
— Jeff Bezos, AI, Trump, and Gawker: Six Highlights From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Interview
Tagged: Freedom of Speech
“We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.””
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos FY2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: bezos, Business, Standards, Operations
“I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
Tagged: Bussinus, How To Attract Customers
“ It’s also part of a wider pattern of how the stories of tech companies get told, which erases the many individuals who help to build them in favor of highlighting the 'lone genius' at the helm. Many of the people who fade to the background have been women.”
— Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder
Tagged: Lone Genius, Myth Of Individuality, Media Cliff Notes, Against Individualism, Networks Of Historical Interactions
“Something unusual happened to me yesterday.”
— Jeff Bezos, No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
“High-Velocity Decision Making.
Day 2 companies make high-quality decisions, but they make high-quality decisions slowly. To keep the energy and dynamism of Day 1, you have to somehow make high-quality, high-velocity decisions. ”
— Jeff Bezos, 2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: Startup, Decision Making, Business Books
“What do you need to achieve high standards in a particular domain area? First, you have to be able to recognize what good looks like in that domain. Second, you must have realistic expectations for how hard it should be (how much work it will take) to achieve that result – the scope.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos FY2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: bezos, Business, Standards, Operations
“[H]igh standards are teachable. In fact, people are pretty good at learning high standards simply through
exposure. High standards are contagious. Bring a new person onto a high standards team, and they’ll quickly
adapt. The opposite is also true. If low standards prevail, those too will quickly spread.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos FY2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: bezos, Business, Standards, Operations
““Most people,” he said, “think that if they work hard, they should be
able to master a handstand in about two weeks. The reality is that it takes about six months of daily practice. If you think you should be able to do it in two weeks, you’re just going to end up quitting.” Unrealistic beliefs on scope – often hidden and undiscussed – kill high standards.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos FY2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: bezos, Business, Standards, Operations
“Building a culture of high standards is well worth the effort, and there are many benefits. Naturally and most obviously, you’re going to build better products and services for customers – this would be reason enough!
Perhaps a little less obvious: people are drawn to high standards – they help with recruiting and retention. More subtle: a culture of high standards is protective of all the “invisible” but crucial work that goes on in every company. I’m talking about the work that no one sees. The work that gets done when no one is watching. In a
high standards culture, doing that work well is its own reward – it’s part of what it means to be a professional.
And finally, high standards are fun! Once you’ve tasted high standards, there’s no going back.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos FY2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: bezos, Business, Standards, Operations
“Another important question is whether high standards are universal or domain specific. In other words, if you have high standards in one area, do you automatically have high standards elsewhere? I believe high standards are domain specific, and that you have to learn high standards separately in every arena of interest...
Understanding this point is important because it keeps you humble. You can consider yourself a person of high standards in general and still have debilitating blind spots.”
— Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos FY2017 Letter to Shareholders
Tagged: bezos, Business, Standards, Operations
“We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer. They want to work on things that will pay dividends in two or three years, and if they don’t work in two or three years they will move on to something else. And they prefer to be close-followers rather than inventors, because it’s safer. So if you want to capture the truth about Amazon, that is why we are different. Very few companies have all of those three elements.”
— Jeff Bezos, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Tagged: Long Time Horizons, Think Big
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