Quotes from bezos jeff ii

I think we live in a multi-device world. You're gonna have a tablet computer. Like an iPad or one of it's competitors. You're gonna have a smart phone. You're gonna have a laptop. You know, the tablet computer isn't going to displace the laptop because there are times when you want to write a long memo or a long email message or an article ... if you want to sit down and read a 300 page book, the kindle is the perfect device.

You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it's disruptive to the old way.

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.

One thing that I tell people is ... if you're going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. If you cannot afford to be misunderstood, then for goodness' sake, don't do anything new or innovative.

I think. I remember the very first occupation I wanted to be -- when, I think, I was about six years old -- was an archeologist. I would like to point out this was before Indiana Jones. It's a point of pride. Then I wanted to be an astronaut. By the time I was in my high school years, I wanted to be a physicist and then by the time I got to college I wanted to be a computer programmer. That's actually what I studied in school and that's what has led me along the path I'm on.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... you know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

When we talk about earth's most customer-centric company ... we want other companies to look at Amazon and see us as the standard bearer for obsessive focus on the customer as opposed to obsessive focus on the competitor.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

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

If you're customer-focused, you're always waking up wondering, how can we make that customer say, wow? We want to impress our customers -- we want them to say, wow. That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.

Life is full of different risks. And I think that, when you think about the things that you will regret when you're 80, they're almost always the things that you did not do. They're acts of omission.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

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

We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren't working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Our culture is friendly and intense, but if push comes to shove we'll settle for intense.

I would never say no to something the team wanted to do, but I might say yes to something the team didn't want to do. You want there to be multiple ways to get to 'yes' because you want to encourage risk-taking.