Andy Jassy quotes

You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is letting them do.

I think you need a leadership team that is absolutely ravenous to get at the truth.

When you have a new idea that hasn't been done before, you need that conviction, that blind faith that it could work.

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.

The vast majority of companies will not own their own data centers in the fullness of time. All that computing is moving to the cloud. This space is going to be a high-volume, relatively low-margin business.