452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

When there's uncertainty in the economy, people get very rational about their spending.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

One of the things that is most important for a company is to be very clear about their strategy, so investors get to self-select as to whether or not that's the right strategy for them. I think we've done a very good job about being clear that we're a long-term focused company,

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

This was our fastest sequential growth as a public company, and we are grateful that so many customers chose Amazon.com for such a broad range of products,