Jeff Bezos, valued at a net worth of $109 billion, is known as one of the world’s richest men. Jeff Bezos is a retail entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, which has become the world’s largest online shopping retailer.
Here are our favorite Jeff Bezos quotes to channel a little into your workday. May his quotes inspire you to get started with your dreams.
Work Hard, have fun, make history.
-Jeff Bezos
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
-Jeff Bezos
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
-Jeff Bezos
You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling.
-Jeff Bezos
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.
-Jeff Bezos
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
-Jeff Bezos
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
-Jeff Bezos
If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
-Jeff Bezos
We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
-Jeff Bezos
You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn’t amazing, it won’t matter. Nobody will watch.
-Jeff Bezos
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
-Jeff Bezos
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
-Jeff Bezos
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
-Jeff Bezos
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
-Jeff Bezos
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn a reputation by trying to do hard things well.
-Jeff Bezos
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
-Jeff Bezos
What we need to do is always look into the future.
-Jeff Bezos
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest in themselves. You don’t choose your passions. Your passions choose you.
-Jeff Bezos
If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
-Jeff Bezos
If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.
-Jeff Bezos
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
-Jeff Bezos
The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.
-Jeff Bezos
If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
-Jeff Bezos
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
-Jeff Bezos
One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
-Jeff Bezos
Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.
-Jeff Bezos
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
-Jeff Bezos
Patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.
-Jeff Bezos
To get something new do you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find it unreasonable.
-Jeff Bezos
We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices.
-Jeff Bezos
If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon.
-Jeff Bezos
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 tailwind is now a headwind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
-Jeff Bezos
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
-Jeff Bezos
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
-Jeff Bezos
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.
-Jeff Bezos
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
-Jeff Bezos
Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
-Jeff Bezos
Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
-Jeff Bezos
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.
-Jeff Bezos
Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.
-Jeff Bezos
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
-Jeff Bezos
Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.
-Jeff Bezos
I like treating things as if they’re small, you know Amazon even though it is a large company, I want it to have the heart and spirit of a small one.
-Jeff Bezos
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