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

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

Jeff Bezos

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Jeff Bezos

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.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

Jeff Bezos

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Jeff Bezos

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it's one thing. He's singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don't find that Plan B idea motivating. I don't want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Jeff Bezos

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Jeff Bezos

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Jeff Bezos

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Jeff Bezos

Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

Jeff Bezos