Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. - Jeff Bezos 1 Share Now -
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term. - Jeff Bezos 2 Share Now -
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. - Jeff Bezos 4 Share Now -
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil. - Jeff Bezos 5 Share Now -
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. - Jeff Bezos 6 Share Now -
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. - Jeff Bezos 8 Share Now -
I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space. - Jeff Bezos 9 Share Now -
I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. - Jeff Bezos 10 Share Now -
