Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. He is best known as the founder, CEO, and president of the online retail company Amazon. The first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos has been the world’s richest person since 2017 and was named the “richest man in modern history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In September 2018, Forbes described him as “far richer than anyone else on the planet” as he added $1.8 billion to his net worth when Amazon became the second company in history to reach a market cap of $1 trillion.
A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.
– Jeff Bezos
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
– Jeff Bezos
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
– Jeff Bezos
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
– Jeff Bezos
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.
– Jeff Bezos
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
– Jeff Bezos
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
– Jeff Bezos
What we want to be is something completely new.
There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
– 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
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person.
You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
– Jeff Bezos
