Jeff Bezos

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.

Jeff Bezos

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It’s such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Jeff Bezos

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Jeff Bezos

If you’re truly obsessed over customers, it’ll cover a lot of errors.

Jeff Bezos

In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.

Jeff Bezos

It’s harder to be kind than clever.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

Jeff Bezos

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

Jeff Bezos