Jeff Bezos Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Innovation is a necessity.

I believe in being an innovator.

I just want to innovate.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

Innovation happens everywhere.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Always challenge the old ways.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.