Jeff Bezos Quotes - Page 2

Things never go smoothly.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

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.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

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.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

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.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

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.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

In the end, we are our choices.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.