Jeff Bezos

"I think that patience is underrated in business today."

"We will take our time getting into spaces where we can genuinely add value."

"The key to being a leader is to have a clear vision and to inspire others to work toward it."

"I believe that the future belongs to those who are willing to think differently."

"What matters is that we're making progress and learning every day."

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

"The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works."

"I wanted to invent something new. If you just invent something and nobody cares, you'll have invented something that doesn't matter."

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

"One of the things that makes us different from other companies is that we are willing to think long-term. We plant seeds for trees we'll never sit under."

"We encourage our employees to think of failures as part of the experimentation process, not as career-limiting events."

"The thing I have learned is that this world will try to shape you into something other than yourself, and you have to resist that with all your might."

"Frugality is not about being cheap. It's about efficiency and removing waste."

"I think there are ways to work on the world's most difficult problems while also building a business."

"You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."

"If you never fail, you're not trying hard enough."

"What we do well is we identify a problem, and then we engineer a solution to solve that problem."

"I have always believed that if you want to increase the odds of success, you should stack the deck as much as you can."

"The brand is trust. And trust is earned through actions over a long period of time."

"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."

"We want to be the Earth's most customer-centric company. We don't just want to be on the internet, we want to shape how it develops."

"People who are right a lot of the time are people who change their minds often."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"Your margin is my opportunity. This is a fundamental insight in business."

"We ask ourselves, 'What if we're 80% wrong about this today?' And we think about how we can improve."

"Every good business gathers comprehensive data and makes decisions based on evidence and analysis."

"Focus on inputs, not outputs. You cannot directly control the output, but you can always control the input."

"Knowing objects have little stamps on them, those little UPC codes, you can track them as they travel around the world."

"The most basic principle to being a good parent is you have to show up."

"If you want to invent, you have to be willing to think long-term and not be motivated by short-term profits."