Jeff Bezos Quotes

• What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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• Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

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• But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

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• Ebooks had to happen.

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• For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

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• I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

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• I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

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• 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.

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• I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

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• I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

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• I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

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• 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.

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• A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

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• Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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• Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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• For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

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• I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

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• I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

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• 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.

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• I think the definition of a book is changing.

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Jeff Bezos (84)

Birth:	12th January, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist who is best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the world's largest online shopping retailer. Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web, as well as the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, through its Amazon Web Services arm. He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin with test flights to space which started in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. In July 2012, Bezos and his wife personally donated $2.5 million to support a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington. He is currently the second-richest person in the world.

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