Jeff Bezos Quotes

• One of the things that is most important for a company is to be very clear about their strategy, so investors get to self-select as to whether or not that’s the right strategy for them. I think we’ve done a very good job about being clear that we’re a long-term focused company.

  Jeff Bezos

• There are many types of investors, … There are as many different types of investors as there are investments. Many of these investors are very long-term oriented, many are very short-term oriented and they vary along other dimensions, too.

  Jeff Bezos

• You have to remember that in the Internet sector, the Internet companies’ share prices have been volatile not just in the last week, but over the last couple of years. That’s likely, I think, to continue.

  Jeff Bezos

• Good ideas will always get funded, so that’s not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

  Jeff Bezos

• I think what you’re going to see going forward is that public investors and also venture capitalists and the whole chain of investors are going to be much more discriminating in their investments.

  Jeff Bezos

• I think there’s no question that there is going to be an accelerating consolidation and that’s very, very healthy for this industry, … In the past, if you look at what ideas have gotten funded, basically all ideas gave gotten funded  — good ideas and bad ideas in the previous climate.

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• This was our fastest sequential growth as a public company, and we are grateful that so many customers chose Amazon.com for such a broad range of products.

  Jeff Bezos

• We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines, … Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.

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• It’s part of the territory with Internet stocks, that kind of volatility. It can be up 30 percent one month, it can be down 30 percent in a month, and a minute spent thinking about the short-term stock price is a minute wasted.

  Jeff Bezos

• Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that.

  Jeff Bezos

• We’re taking no chances in marketing this holiday season.

  Jeff Bezos

• Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.

  Jeff Bezos

• This has the potential to be bigger than anything we’ve ever done.

  Jeff Bezos

• This is the cheapest and easiest way to have an Internet (sales) strategy. This solves all the problems. We charge the customer’s credit card and deposit the money directly into your bank account.

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• We’re standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook.

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• We did a lot this quarter. For the rest of 1999 we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.

  Jeff Bezos

• We believe there’s a tremendous opportunity ahead across the $5 trillion retail market globally.

  Jeff Bezos

• We are thrilled to have Joe at Amazon.

  Jeff Bezos

• We will continue to invest in systems, people and product expansion, each of which helps us better serve customers, … For the rest of 1999, we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.

  Jeff Bezos

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

  Jeff Bezos

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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