20 Best Jeff Bezos Quotes on Success, Motivation, Business, and Leadership.

Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world. He started Amazon from his garage in 1993. With a Net Worth of $186 Billion, he is the second richest person in the world. In May 2021 he was surpassed by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault.

Below are 20 of our favorite Jeff Bezos Quotes to get motivated.

One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

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I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

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Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details…

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It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

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Work Hard, have fun, make history.

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

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

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I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

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The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.

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The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’

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Patience, persistence, and obsessive attention to detail.

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The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.

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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions. Your passions choose you.

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When the world changes around you and when it changes against you, what used to be a tail wind is now a headwind, you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

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To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

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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

Another thing that I would recommend to people is that they always take a long-term point of view. I think this is something about which there’s a lot of controversy. A lot of people — and I’m just not one of them — believe that you should live for the now.

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Your margin is my opportunity.

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