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 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 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 I certainly think it's true that Barnes & Noble is a much, much larger company. I mean, they're a co...
JEFFREY BEZOS It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ...
JEFF GREENFIELD I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
JEFF SESSIONS Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those ...
JEFF AMENT I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
JEFF BECK Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a...
JEFF COHEN That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
JEFF FOXWORTHY I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people&#...
JEFF KINNEY People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People ...
JEFF ROSS Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
JEFF FOXWORTHY 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ...
JEFF KINNEY Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity&#...
JEFF GRUBB When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civ...
JEFF GREENFIELD You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so...
JEFF TWEEDY Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy...
JEFF BRIDGES It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you...
JEFF KOONS There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ...
JEFF BRIDGES The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.
JEFF ZUCKER We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han...
JEFF DUNHAM When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ...
JEFF FORTENBERRY Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover...
JEFF DUNCAN While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential...
JEFF DUNCAN Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
JEFF KINNEY What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse...
JEFF NICHOLS I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, wh...
JEFF ZUCKER Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they...
JEFF LANDRY Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidat...
JEFF GREENFIELD One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can hav...
JEFF GOODELL I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w...
JEFF LINDSAY I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
JEFF GOLDBLUM You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem...
JEFF FOXWORTHY Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ...
JEFF BUCKLEY Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y...
JEFF FOXWORTHY People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.
JEFF FORTENBERRY If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whi...
JEFF BECK It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha...
JEFF FISHER For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a ver...
JEFF LINDSAY There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music indust...
JEFF TWEEDY For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t...
JEFF HARDY From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off moun...
JEFF GOODELL I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
JEFF BUCKLEY I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea...
JEFF NICHOLS Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this w...
JEFF MACNELLY I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti...
JEFF SESSIONS I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the...
JEFF ZASLOW But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the...
JEFF VANDERMEER I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th...
JEFF LINDSAY You can't do everything but you can do something!
JEFF DIXON Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
JEFF PESIS Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
JEFF DEWAR We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw...
JEFF WARNER I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless...
JEFF DAVIDSON The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.
JEFF TAYLOR What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ...
JEFF DAVIDSON Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get m...
JEFF DEWAR The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly excee...
JEFF DAVIDSON We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
JEFF ARDER When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter.
JEFF ARCH Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...
JEFF FOXWORTHY You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out ...
JEFF MELVOIN The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
JEFF MELVOIN Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
JEFF MELVOIN My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not ...
JEFF FOXWORTHY Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is t...
JEFF MELVOIN When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our...
JEFF BAENA There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ...
JEFF LEMIRE I like Donald. I guess I shouldn't call him that. I like President Trump. He's affable. He&#...
JEFF ZUCKER I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they'...
JEFF CARLSON Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar...
JEFF KINNEY There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPo...
JEFF VANDERMEER With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homelan...
JEFF MILLER The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory ...
JEFF NICHOLS The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote thei...
JEFF SESSIONS The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, wh...
JEFF DUNCAN I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see...
JEFF DUNHAM I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have t...
JEFF MANGUM Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this yea...
JEFF BINGAMAN I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
JEFF BRIDGES As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's...
JEFF MILLER This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alask...
JEFF GOLDBLUM When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to over...
JEFF JORDAN Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'
JEFF JORDAN I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the p...
JEFF SMISEK I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're a...
JEFF BUCKLEY It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the m...
JEFF ZUCKER Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another gu...
JEFF BUCKLEY Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities t...
JEFF GARCIA Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every Sta...
JEFF SESSIONS If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...
JEFF FOXWORTHY Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal han...
JEFF GOODELL The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout mat...
JEFF MILLER Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibu...
JEFF MILLER It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunate...
JEFF MILLER I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment pla...
JEFF MILLER Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree wit...
JEFF MILLER As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful ...
JEFF MILLER It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands...
JEFF MILLER I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly c...
JEFF MILLER I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bea...
JEFF MILLER Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
JEFF MILLER All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who belie...
JEFF MILLER According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were to...
JEFF MILLER I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the peop...
JEFF MILLER I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican coll...
JEFF MILLER Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.
JEFF MILLER Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
JEFF MILLER The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and ...
JEFF MILLER In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. ...
JEFF MILLER That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence an...
JEFF MILLER We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, b...
JEFF MILLER