452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

I never worked on the school newspaper.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

The people who are right a lot often change their minds.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.