Jeff Bezos Quotes

American business magnate (born 1964)

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the world's largest online shopping retailer. The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web, as well as the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, which is available through its Amazon Web Services arm. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper.

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Birth Name: Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen

Alternative Names: Jeffrey Preston Bezos • Jeffrey Bezos • Jeffrey Jorgensen • Jeff Jorgensen

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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.

If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details... People who are right a lot change their mind... They have the same data set that they had at the beginning, but they wake up, and they re-analyze things all the time, and they come to a new conclusion, and then they change their mind.

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year horizon, you’re competing against a lot of people.

But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because few companies are willing to do that.

Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market and less than 4% of retail in the U.S. Unlike industries that are winner-take-all, there’s room in retail for many winners.