Jeff Bezos Quotes

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

How you manage change can make all the difference.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Our only security is our ability to change.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

If you see that something is not working, you have to be willing to change course.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.