452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.

If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Amazon.com is still a small and young company relative to many offline retailers, and we must ensure that we build the strongest customer relationships possible during this critical period, ... In 1999, we expect to invest even more aggressively than we have in the past.

We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

For the fifth consecutive quarter, we saw substantial improvements in our operations and bottom-line performance, ... Electronics demonstrated especially strong growth and improvements.

This partnership will have the effect of significantly expanding our reach,

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.