Jeff Bezos Quotes

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

What is the point of one guy developing a 1.3 engine, and another guy a 1.4? What are you getting for this? And the answer is nothing: a total waste of capital.

There is not really any point in having a big squad if you don't use it.

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

It's one thing to get the money apportioned in the budget; the other is to utilise it completely.

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

We buy products for our military and they come in at costs that are so far above what they were supposed to be, because we don't have people that know what they're doing.