Visionary:Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Biography
Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, pioneer of e-commerce and cloud computing.
Category
Entrepreneur
Notable Quotes
On Zero Marginal Cost Society
"Your margin is my opportunity."
—Jeff Bezos, The Everything Store (2013), p. 241, Little, Brown and Company
On Network Effects and Platform Monopolies
"We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient."
—Jeff Bezos, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Testimony (2020), July 29, 2020, Washington, D.C.
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"Machine learning and AI is a horizontal enabling technology. It will empower and improve every business."
—Jeff Bezos, Amazon Shareholder Letter (2017), April 12, 2017, p. 3
On Attention Economy and Information Overload
"The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies."
—Jeff Bezos, Amazon Shareholder Letter (2018), April 11, 2018, p. 1
On Innovation Cycles and Market Bubbles
"Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death."
—Jeff Bezos, Amazon Shareholder Letter (2016), April 12, 2016, p. 1