Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Jeff Bezos

Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

Jeff Bezos

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It’s not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

Jeff Bezos

People don’t want gadgets, they want services.

Jeff Bezos

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet – how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

Jeff Bezos

People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

Jeff Bezos

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Jeff Bezos

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Jeff Bezos

Strip malls are history.

Jeff Bezos

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

Jeff Bezos