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Jeff Bezos

born 1964

Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur known for founding Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, in 1994. He served as the CEO of Amazon until 2021 and is recognized for transforming e-commerce and revolutionizing the way consumers shop online. Bezos is also a billionaire philanthropist and the founder of Blue Origin, a space exploration company.

  1. If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway.

    Jeff Bezos
    #delivery#efficiency#criticism

  2. I started Amazon when I was 30, not when I was 20, and I think that that extra 10 years of experience actually improved the odds that Amazon would succeed.

    Jeff BezosAOL.com
    #experience#success#perseverance

  3. When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.

    Jeff Bezosarticles.data.blog/2024/03/30/jeff-bezos-when-the-data-and-the-anecdotes-disagree-the-anecdotes-are-usually-right/
    #data#truth#perception

  4. Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

    Jeff Bezos2016 Letter to Shareholders
    #customers#success#alignment

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

    Jeff BezosOnline Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power. Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com, August 2, 2004
    #experience#word-of-mouth#power

  6. 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 BezosAnnual Letter to Shareholders, 1997
    #guests#experience#service

  7. The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

    Jeff BezosInterview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com, March 26, 2001
    #brain#patterns#intelligence

  8. What's dangerous is not to evolve.

    Jeff Bezoseconomictimes.indiatimes.com/us/news/quote-of-the-day-by-jeff-bezos-whats-dangerous-is/articleshow/126614428.cms
    #evolution#danger#growth

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

    Jeff BezosOnline Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power. Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com, August 2, 2004
    #brand#reputation#effort

  10. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over.

    Jeff BezosIn a 2001 interview Bezos said, Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over
    #stress#action#control

  11. You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details.

    Jeff BezosUtah Technology Council UTC 2012 Hall of Fame - Jeff Bezos Keynote (Nov 2012)
    #vision#flexibility#determination