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11 Jeff Bezos Quotes from Books

Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 11 Jeff Bezos quotes that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you enjoy reading them.

Jeff Bezos Quotes

There is so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There’s so much new that’s going to happen. People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this, we are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

We don’t make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

Great merchants have never had the opportunity to understand their customers in a truly individualized way, e-commerce is going to make that possible.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority. That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can’t excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

Physically, I’m a chicken. Mentally, I’m bold.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

We don’t view ourselves as a bookstore or a music store. We want to be the place for someone to find and discover anything they want to buy.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

When given the choice of obsessing over competitors or obsessing over customers, we always obsess over customers.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

We pay attention to what our competitors do but it’s not where we put our energy.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone

We humans are getting awfully sophisticated in technological ways and have a lot of potential to be very dangerous to ourselves. It seems to me that we, as a species, have to start thinking longer term.

Jeff Bezos, from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone