Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
JB
Jeff BezosInterview, The Washington Post (2013)
About Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin. (b. 1964)
More from Jeff Bezos
- If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.Interview, Code Conference (2016)
- Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details.As quoted in The New Yorker (2019)
- I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.Interview, Academy of Achievement (2001)
- Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.Princeton University baccalaureate address (2010)
- In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.Princeton University baccalaureate address (2010)
- To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment.Amazon shareholder letter (2015)
More quotes on sales and persuasion
- There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.Peter Drucker
- The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.Peter Drucker
- Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.Henry Ford
- The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.David Ogilvy
- When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.David Ogilvy
- Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC.David Ogilvy
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