Jeff Bezos is best known as the founder, CEO, and president of multinational company Amazon. Though he started Amazon as an online bookstore, now it serves a variety of products across the globe. Harvard Business Review ranked him as the best performing CEO in 2014.
- “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
- “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
- “The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is why not?”
- “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”
- “All businesses need to be forever.”
- “Keep our competitors focused on us, while we stay focused on the customer.”
- “If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.”
- “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.”
- “Obsess about customers, not competitors.”
- “Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details.”
