Jeff Bezos Quotes

Where you are going to spend your time and

your energy is one of the most important decisions

you get to make in life.

Keep your eyes on the customer,

not the competitor.

Truth be told,

I never thought Amazon would become what it is today.

Every business is a living document

that needs to be improved.

You can't reach a consensus

on the most important things.

Don't be trapped by dogma.

High velocity decision making is the key to

staying a Day 1 company.

I want Amazon to have the heart and spirit

of a small company.

I like treating things as if they’re small.

When the world changes against you,

you have to figure out what to do.

Lean into the future.

Complaining is not a strategy.

You have to work with the world as you find it.

It’s hard to be a billionaire and be a victim.

Getting it wrong isn't that bad.

You have to use heart and intuition;

there has to be risk taking.

The winners when you're doing these experiments

pay for thousands of losers.

For me,

it's like yesterday

I was driving the packages to the post office myself.

I wanted to minimize the number of regrets

I had when I was 80.

The way I decided to leave Wall Street

was a regret minimization framework.

You can be two sizes: You can be big,

or you can be small.

It’s very hard to be medium.