Jeff Bezos Quotes

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Jeff Bezos

Matter, Actually, Matters

Strip malls are history.
Jeff Bezos

History, Malls, Strip

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Jeff Bezos

Human, Brain, Incredible

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Jeff Bezos

Home, Thinking, Light

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
Jeff Bezos

Home, Evil, Trying

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
Jeff Bezos

Easy, Motivation, Common

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Jeff Bezos

Involved, Discovery

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
Jeff Bezos

Positive, Business, Important

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Jeff Bezos

Physical, Becoming, Amazon

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

Simple, Price, Negotiate

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

Love, Lost, Stories

You want your customers to value your service.
Jeff Bezos

Service, Value, Customers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: January 12, 1964

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