452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

I'm barely making ends meet. How can I start a business?

In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.

Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

I now believe it's possible that the current rules governing business-method and software patents could end up harming us all, ... despite the call from many thoughtful folks for us to give up our patents unilaterally, I don't believe it would be right for us to do so.

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

Strip malls are history.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.