Quotes by Jeff Bezos
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In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

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

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

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

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.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

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

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

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

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

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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

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.

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.