Jeff Bezos Quotes

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

I'm a fact-based leader.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions that benefit innovators and the American people.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.