Jeff Bezos is an investor and a technology entrepreneur from the United States of America. He was born on the 12th of January in the year of 1964. He is currently 55 years old now. Jeff was born in the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico. He was married to MacKenzie Tuttle from the years of 1993 to 2019 and he has four children from his marriage. Jeff Bezos graduated from the Princeton University in the year of 1986 with a GPA of 4.2 and he gained a Bachelor of Science degree in the field of electrical engineering.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in the year of 1994, and initially Amazon started its operations as an online bookstore. Starting from humble beginnings, Jeff Bezos has managed to turn Amazon into one of the biggest companies in the entire world, and currently it is the biggest e-commerce site on the planet. The success at Amazon has catapulted Jeff Bezos to become to the richest man in the entire planet, with Forbes estimating that his net worth is over $150 billion as of 2018. Jeff has also founded the aerospace company Blue Origin in the year 2000. He later went on to purchase Washington Post for $250 million. He is currently one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the modern generation.
- “If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.” – Jeff Bezos
- “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos
- “What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” – Jeff Bezos
- “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos
- “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is why not?” – Jeff Bezos
- “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” – Jeff Bezos
- “There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.” – Jeff Bezos
- “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” – Jeff Bezos
- “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It;s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.” – Jeff Bezos
- “When the world changes around you and when it changes against you, what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind, you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” – Jeff Bezos
- “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.” – Jeff Bezos
- “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.” – Jeff Bezos
- “I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.” – Jeff Bezos
- “It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online.” – Jeff Bezos
- “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions. Your passions choose you.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Your margin is my opportunity.” – Jeff Bezos
- “People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.” – Jeff Bezos
- “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passion; your passion chooses you.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’” – Jeff Bezos
- “A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.” – Jeff Bezos
- “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Obsess about customers, not competitors.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.” – Jeff Bezos
- “One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Work hard, have fun, make history.” – Jeff Bezos
