452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

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

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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.

Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.