The vision for Echo and Alexa was inspired by the Star Trek computer
The vision for Echo and Alexa was inspired by the Star Trek computer

Similar Jeff Bezos quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Entrepreneurs should always aim to play the long game. Instant gratification cannot build a legacy.
- Successful people follow their passion, not money. Nonetheless, their success attracts money.
- I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business.
- Creativity is just connecting things.
- I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
- Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
- Everything I dreamed of became a reality, and my reality became a dream.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is ‘why not?’.
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Trustworthy is earned not bought.
- Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.
- Great losses are great lessons.
- People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
- In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
- Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
- Disruptors don’t have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
- Entrepreneurship means that you are the founder, CEO, designer, developer, vendor, human resources, trainer, planner, executor and hustler
- To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down.