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Jeff Bezos Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“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
“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
“[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
“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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