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Jeff Bezos Quotes

Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet and is the founder CEO of the Amazon. He has estimated worth of 166.3 billion USD (2020) but what makes him so rich? Jeff Bezos is one of the most inspiring and revolutionary entrepreneurs of this generation. From starting Amazon as the online bookstore to making Amazon the largest internet company in terms of revenue, Bezos has shown his skills in marketing, entrepreneurship, and business.

Besides creating wealth, he has a great vision and it is something that young entrepreneurs can learn from him.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Jeff Bezos:

1. If you don't understand the detail of your business, you are going to fail.

2. Failure and invention are inseparable twins.

3. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is powerful.

4. It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

5. There'll be serendipity involved in the discovery.

6.  I know that if I failed I would not regret that, but I know the one thing that I might regret is not trying.

7. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

8. Work hard, have fun, make history.

9. A company should not get addicted to being shiny because shiny does not last.

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

11. Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you are missionary about.

12. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still day 1 in such a big way.

13. Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

14. Be stubborn in the long-term visions and flexible on the details.

15. If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

16. Your Brand is what people say about you after you leave the room.

17. My view is there is no bad time to innovate.

18. If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

19. Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make.

20. If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

21. Complaining is not a strategy.

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

23. Life is too short to hang out with people who are not resourceful.

24. We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

25. People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.

26. The common question that gets asked in business is, "why?" That's a good question, but an equally valid question is "why not?"

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

28. 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.

29. I'd rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

30. 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 tell 6,000 friends.

31. 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 a problem you're trying to solve.

32. Everything you are comes from your choices.

33. Cleverness is a gift, Kindness is a choice.

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

35. We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

36. There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be second.

37. Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.

38. Where you are going to spend your time and energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

39. Advertising is the price you pay for unremarkable thinking.\

40. The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

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

42. Determine what your customer needs, and work backward.

43. One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

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

45. No communication is terrible.

46. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

47. My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

48. Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower price is hard.

49. If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.

50. The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

51. I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

52. Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people making purchasing decisions.

53. Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

54. For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions.

55. Cultures aren't so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

56. People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horses to work just because you love it.

57. You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

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