Quotes from Jeff Bezos

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

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.

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?'

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

If there's one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.