452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August,

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

A year from now Barnes & Noble won't even consider us a direct competitor, ... What we're trying to do is invent the future of e-commerce.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

You've taken 16 years off of your life by smoking.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.