black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Entrepreneur Minimalism Product Stock
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
JEFF BEZOZ

Brand Business Company Hard Work Person Reputation Try
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Customer Eventually Forever Irrelevant Need Young
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

Against Business Change Complain Future Strategy World
Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.
JEFF BEZOZ

Experiment Failure Function Success
Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning.
JEFF BEZOZ

Creation Environment Learning Process Satisfaction Teacher
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Challenge Change Irrelevant
Everything you are comes from your choices.
JEFF BEZOS

Choice Come Healing Life One Liner Past
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Detail Failure Going Understand
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
JEFF BEZOZ

Book Creation Narrative People
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
JEFF BEZOZ

Flexible Inspirational Stubborn Vision
I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online.
JEFF BEZOZ

Book Business Company Crazy Internet Start
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Invention Nature Time Understand Want
We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and thy’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
JEFF BEZOS

Business Customer Ideas Invention Patience Reason Stuck Success
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 BEZOZ

Business Customer Internet Physical World
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
JEFF BEZOZ

Business Firm Grasp Obvious Time

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jeff Bezos Quotes