452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

You have to remember that in the Internet sector, the Internet companies' share prices have been volatile not just in the last week, but over the last couple of years. That's likely, I think, to continue.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

This single individual completely changed something. That's the kind of thing people can do anywhere. They can do it in Seattle; they can do it in North Dakota.

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

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

We are very pleased with our acceleration in new customer acquisition. It took us 27 months to serve our first million customers, and less than six months to serve our second million.