Jeff Bezos Quotes (69 Quotes)

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Thanks to free shipping and low prices, we expect more customers to turn to us for their holiday gifting needs this year -- producing our biggest holiday shopping season ever,

We get to move more units across that same fixed-cost structure. So it does help our business and help customers at the same time,

What I can tell you is in the first few weeks of this quarter...we are continuing to see good books unit growth,

Our vision first and foremost is to be the Earth's most customer-centric company and then, within that, to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything and everything that they might want to buy online,

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

The earth's most customer-centric company is figuring out what the customer wants and how to give it to them, ... By offering a universal selection of products, we can do something online that you could never do in the physical world.

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

To our customers around the world--thank you. We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a happy new year.

We'd like to thank Joe for his hard work and accomplishments over the last year. I believe he is making the right decision for him and his family under the circumstances. We all wish him the very best.

We're trying to build the most customer-centric company in the world, ... I genuinely believe the balance of power online shifts away from the merchant toward the consumer.

In connection with the restructuring, Amazon said it will take a charge against earnings of more than 150 million in the first half of 2001. No company enjoys making such a decision, and it's always difficult and painful ... But it was clearly the right business decision for us as we pursue making this into a profitable company.

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

After all, analysts and investors alike have demanded for months that Amazon. com boost the company's value by selling more than just books and compact discs. We are interested in anything where we can revolutionize the buying experience, ... Our vision has been to build a place to find anything.

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.

While free shipping is expensive for the company, it saves our customers tens of millions of dollars each quarter, and we plan to keep it in place indefinitely,