452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.