Jeff Bezos Quotes

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

I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There’s no confusion. The problem is…it’s a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

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.

We’ve done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don’t do that, because we believe — and we have to take this as an article of faith — that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

You don’t chose your passion, your passion choses you

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.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that’s worth talking about.

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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.