Jeffrey Bezos quote: "I certainly think it's true that Barnes & Noble is a much, much larger company. I mean, they're a company with almost $3 billion in sales. They have 28,000 employees. Amazon.com has 500 employees."

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to gi...
JEFFREY BEZOS

Ultimately buying the book from Amazon.com will be a better experience than buying it in a store,
JEFFREY BEZOS

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve...
JEFF BEZOS

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is...
JEFF BEZOS

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Bein...
JEFF BEZOS

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
JEFF BEZOS

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
JEFF BEZOS

What's dangerous is not to evolve.
JEFF BEZOS

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
JEFF BEZOS

I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I wa...
JEFF BEZOS

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out...
JEFF BEZOS

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom tim...
JEFF BEZOS

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
JEFF BEZOS

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
JEFF BEZOS

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
JEFF BEZOS

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
JEFF BEZOS

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
JEFF BEZOS

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk ...
JEFF BEZOS

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
JEFF BEZOS

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard th...
JEFF BEZOS

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it cha...
JEFF BEZOS

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powe...
JEFF BEZOS

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
JEFF BEZOS

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charg...
JEFF BEZOS

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively lo...
JEFF BEZOS

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
JEFF BEZOS

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
JEFF BEZOS

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long...
JEFF BEZOS

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
JEFF BEZOS

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day ...
JEFF BEZOS

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but a...
JEFF BEZOS

You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purc...
JEFF BEZOS

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 1...
JEFF BEZOS

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what...
JEFF BEZOS

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince peopl...
JEFF BEZOS

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelev...
JEFF BEZOS

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out fr...
JEFF BEZOS

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
JEFF BEZOS

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the ...
JEFF BEZOS

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

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have th...
JEFF BEZOS

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to m...
JEFF BEZOS

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm us...
JEFF BEZOS

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
JEFF BEZOS

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
JEFF BEZOS

Infrastructure web services had to happen.
JEFF BEZOS

I think what you're going to see going forward is that public investors and also venture capitalists...
JEFF BEZOS

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it'...
JEFF BEZOS

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location,...
JEFF BEZOS

Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per...
JEFF BEZOS

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with peo...
JEFF BEZOS

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount...
JEFF BEZOS

Strip malls are history.
JEFF BEZOS

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
JEFF BEZOS

In September, 6 of the 10 top-selling items on Amazon.com were from our electronics store.
JEFF BEZOS

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pret...
JEFF BEZOS

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
JEFF BEZOS

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks count...
JEFF BEZOS

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
JEFF BEZOS

We lowered prices so significantly over the last 15 months, there have been five significant price r...
JEFF BEZOS

We feel strongly that copyright holders should get to make these decisions.
JEFF BEZOS

We are thrilled to have Joe at Amazon.
JEFF BEZOS

We did a lot this quarter. For the rest of 1999 we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the...
JEFF BEZOS

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything t...
JEFF BEZOS

We believe there's a tremendous opportunity ahead across the $5 trillion retail market globally.
JEFF BEZOS

It's expensive, but it has a lot of benefits ... for Amazon and Amazon shareholders. It not only sav...
JEFF BEZOS

We have for five years now declined to predict when Amazon.com might be profitable ... and we are fi...
JEFF BEZOS

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other peop...
JEFF BEZOS

We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,
JEFF BEZOS

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
JEFF BEZOS

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine st...
JEFF BEZOS

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out ...
JEFF BEZOS

We will continue to invest in systems, people and product expansion, each of which helps us better s...
JEFF BEZOS

We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large...
JEFF BEZOS

Ebooks had to happen.
JEFF BEZOS

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
JEFF BEZOS

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

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for wh...
JEFF BEZOS

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete sele...
JEFF BEZOS

Your margin is my opportunity.
JEFF BEZOS. CEO. AMAZON

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons thei...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making the...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destro...
JEFFREY SACHS

Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and o...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

Great people have great values and great ethics.
JEFFREY GITOMER

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise a...
JEFFREY SACHS

There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
JEFFREY GITOMER

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st...
JEFFREY GITOMER

I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ...
JEFFREY SKOLL

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p...
JEFFREY GITOMER

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i...
JEFFREY SACHS

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
JEFFREY DONOVAN

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l...
JEFFREY DONOVAN

I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
JEFFREY TATE

Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ...
JEFFREY SATINOVER

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav...
JEFFREY SACHS

Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY

Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY

You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no...
JEFFREY MICHAEL

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning...
JEFFREY ARCHER

It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr...
JEFFREY BELL

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus...
JEFFREY KOTTLER

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY

Good design can't fix broken business models.
JEFFREY VEEN

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
FRANCIS JEFFREY

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're s...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakne...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie...
JEFFREY TATE

Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as A...
JEFFREY KLUGER

We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
JEFFREY GITOMER

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a l...
JEFFREY KLUGER

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acou...
JEFFREY TATE

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daugh...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than wh...
JEFFREY KLUGER

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the co...
JEFFREY CHIESA

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it conscio...
JEFFREY KLUGER

My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I h...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all i...
JEFFREY GITOMER

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagi...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to l...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outs...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there i...
JEFFREY SACHS

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and w...
JEFFREY GITOMER

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
JEFFREY GITOMER

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and stri...
JEFFREY GITOMER

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion ...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich wou...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to e...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
JEFFREY KLUGER

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
FRANCIS JEFFREY

It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedo...
BELINDA JEFFREY

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, me...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
JEFFREY MCDANIEL

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are p...
JEFFREY DEITCH

Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Re...
JEFFREY SKOLL

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believe...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both th...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER

The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

And so now, having been born, I'm going to rewind the film, so that my pink blanket flies off, my cr...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; an...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the succes...
JEFFREY GITOMER

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served u...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited tr...
JEFFREY KLUGER

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort o...
JEFFREY KLUGER

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neuroch...
JEFFREY KLUGER

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This migh...
JEFFREY TATE

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome...
JEFFREY BELL

Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is t...
JEFFREY TOOBIN

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up ...
JEFFREY SACHS

I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only bec...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make ...
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I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town s...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN

I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where t...
JEFFREY KLUGER

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle,...
JEFFREY TATE

I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater hero...
JEFFREY TAMBOR

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it....
JEFFREY WRIGHT

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding...
JEFFREY JONES

When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ...
JEFFREY SKOLL

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny,

the way monogamy is funny, the way<...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL

One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY

Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY

'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding an...
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but...
LORD JEFFREY

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group tha...
JEFFREY KLUGER

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. ...
JEFFREY KLUGER

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
JEFFREY DEITCH

I certainly think it's true that Barnes & Noble is a much, much larger company. I mean, they're a company with almost $3 billion in sales. They have 28,000 employees. Amazon.com has 500 employees.

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I certainly think it's true that Barnes & Noble is a much, much larger company. I mean, they're a company with almost $3 billion in sales. They have 28,000 employees. Amazon.com has 500 employees.

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