Welcome to the world of Andy Jassy quotes, where the wisdom and insights of one of the most influential leaders in the tech industry are encapsulated. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and successor to Jeff Bezos as the CEO of Amazon, is renowned for his strategic vision, leadership prowess, and keen business acumen. As a key figure in shaping the landscape of cloud computing and digital innovation, Jassy’s words carry significant weight and offer valuable lessons for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and aspiring professionals alike.
Through his speeches, interviews, and public appearances, Andy Jassy has shared invaluable perspectives on topics ranging from leadership and innovation to entrepreneurship and technology trends. His quotes reflect a deep understanding of the rapidly evolving tech industry and provide insights into navigating the challenges and opportunities it presents. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, guidance, or simply a glimpse into the mind of a visionary leader, the following compilation of Andy Jassy quotes promises to enlighten and motivate. Explore these quotes, harness their power, and consider how they can inform and influence your own journey in the dynamic world of business and technology. Remember, the words of Andy Jassy serve as both a compass and a catalyst for success. Discover them below.
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. Andy Jassy
We’re much more focused on the long term than most companies. Andy Jassy
I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you’re talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable. Andy Jassy
Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it’s not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and education. Andy Jassy
A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business – which by the way is a completely rational strategy. Andy Jassy
For us, employee safety is priority number one for us in our fulfillment centers. Andy Jassy
What’s different is with every successive year, as we launch a thousand plus features and services, we just have the capabilities to make it easier for the rest of the market to use us. Andy Jassy
People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there’s no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively funding AWS that there’s no reason to do it. Andy Jassy
I think that always our focus is gonna be the customers. Andy Jassy
We started to consider what became Amazon Web Services between 2000 and 2003. Andy Jassy
We don’t think of HQ1 being Seattle any longer. We really think of it as Puget Sound. Andy Jassy
The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they’d be treated as every bit as important a customer as Amazon the retailer is. Andy Jassy
We have a lot of people in Seattle, but we also have a lot of people in Bellevue and it is where most of our growth will end up being. Andy Jassy
A lot of competitors of various Amazon businesses use AWS. We don’t view that as a problem. We very consciously want any company, competitor or not, to use our infrastructure to build their business. Andy Jassy
When you look at whether a company is a monopoly or not, the first thing you look at is what kind of market segment share they have. Andy Jassy
The company has been clear from the start that we try to serve customers long-term, and long-term investors are going to be more excited about Amazon than short-term investors. Andy Jassy
When you experience great voice apps, it makes tapping on an app so circa 2005. Andy Jassy
We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had a mental image of a college kid in his dorm room having the same access, the same scalability and same infrastructure costs as the largest businesses in the world. Andy Jassy
We’ve led the way in the $15 minimum wage. Andy Jassy
There is no compression algorithm for experience. Andy Jassy
With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field. Andy Jassy
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments. Andy Jassy
You have to be willing to have failures along the way. Andy Jassy
Netflix, despite the fact that they compete very aggressively with Prime Video on the Amazon side, they run everything on top of AWS and have for several years – same with Disney, Warner, Fox, HBO and Turner, they all run on AWS. Andy Jassy
We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site. Andy Jassy
You know, Amazon as a whole has become – has been successful, and across a few different business segments, but simply because the company’s been successful, in a few different business segments, doesn’t mean it’s somehow too big. Andy Jassy
Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don’t. Andy Jassy
My suspicion is that a lot of these office buildings will start to evolve from being optimized for individual offices or cube space to being hot offices where you decide which day you’re going to come in and then you reserve a desk. Andy Jassy
Tennis was a particularly interesting growing-up experience. It’s actually a difficult way of growing up because it’s such an individual sport. It taught me a lot of life lessons that have been helpful later in my life. Andy Jassy
A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you’re just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to trying to win. Andy Jassy
At Amazon, with new initiatives, we don’t look at something and say, ‘Okay, it needs to hit this certain metric.’ Because it’s impossible to know whether somebody’s going to respond to something really new and innovative. Andy Jassy
In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a long period of time. Just look at what’s happening in games and how social they’ve become. Andy Jassy
Companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure. Andy Jassy
Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it’s a really hard thing to get out of, and they’re so hostile to their customers, that I think it’s a concern for every enterprise. Andy Jassy
Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that’s actually a good thing and it makes sense. Andy Jassy
If something is going to happen, whether you want it to happen or not, it is going to happen. And you are much better off cannibalizing yourself, or being ahead of whatever direction the world is headed than you are howling at the wind or wishing it away or trying to put up blockers. Andy Jassy
If you do any thorough, apples-to-apples, objective comparison of AWS versus Microsoft, you don’t come out deciding that they’re comparable platforms. Andy Jassy
Tennis is very much a meritocracy. There’s no favoritism, there’s no politics. You either win or lose based on how you perform in the moment. Andy Jassy
I took my last final exam at HBS, the first Friday of May in 1997, and I started Amazon next Monday. No, I didn’t know what my job was going to be, or what my title was going to be. Andy Jassy
Before, companies and startups had to lay up all this capital for data centers and servers, and take your scarce resource, which in most companies is engineers, and have them work on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of infrastructure. What the cloud has done is completely flipped that model on its head so that you only pay for what you consume. Andy Jassy
You have to know what competitors are doing in your space. Andy Jassy
You can’t just go careening toward your idea without checking in with customers and people who might use it and making sure you’re on to something. Andy Jassy
You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move. Andy Jassy
These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require hard thinking and innovative solutions. But I think cities are so better off working with the business community towards joint solutions, rather than trying to tax them. Andy Jassy
We believe that governments and the organizations that are charged with keeping our communities safe have to have access to the most sophisticated, modern technology that exists. Andy Jassy
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. Andy Jassy
Simply because Amazon decides to pursue a market segment doesn’t mean the customers are going to spend their money there, and so it means that we have to do an amazing job in providing a great customer experience that customers want. Andy Jassy
I think that there are a number of older-guard technology companies who either genuinely believe or are hoping people will believe that companies aren’t going to move to the cloud that quickly or that a very large amount of workloads will remain on-premises forever. I don’t believe that. Andy Jassy
It’s incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny. Andy Jassy
Well, I think that the pandemic, I mean what a crazy period. I don’t think any of us have lived through anything like that before and I hope we never live through anything like that after. Andy Jassy
There is insatiable demand for AWS cloud services. Andy Jassy
When you have a new idea that hasn’t been done before, you need that conviction, that blind faith that it could work. Andy Jassy
We feel like we experienced probably two to three years of growth in 18 months. You couldn’t probably responsibly plan for a pandemic or the amount of capacity that’s needed. Andy Jassy
I’ve been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I’ve obviously drunk the Kool-Aid. Andy Jassy
I mean it’s easy to have a website. It’s inexpensive to do so, and most of the small businesses have that, but to get access to hundreds of millions of customers is hard. Andy Jassy
At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers. Andy Jassy
I would say that things like the head tax in Seattle I think are super dangerous for cities to implement. What company is going to want to start – or move to or grow in – a city that penalizes them for hiring full-time employees? Andy Jassy
When you have a sitting president who’s willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company, it’s very difficult for government agencies including the DOD to make an objective decision without fear of reprisal. Andy Jassy
You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what’s working and what’s not working. Andy Jassy
You have got to be maniacal and relentless – relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth. Andy Jassy
Customers or employees are free to shoot me email. I may not respond to every single one because sometimes the numbers are voluminous, but I read them all. Andy Jassy
I think our relationship with Seattle has had ups and downs frankly. Andy Jassy
In the early 2000s, we were finding at Amazon that software development projects were taking us longer than we thought they should. We decided to build a set of infrastructure services to allow our retail business to move more quickly. Andy Jassy
We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and Etsy and Wayfair, and we don’t have the ability to raise prices in any kind of unfettered way. Andy Jassy
Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it’s often sweeter. Andy Jassy
You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we’re working on, that we’ll continue to work on in the future. Andy Jassy
I think you need a leadership team that is absolutely ravenous to get at the truth. Andy Jassy
When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment. Andy Jassy
We have a large number of people working in AI. If you look around homes and the workplace, there are all these sensors in many devices. This is what people commonly call the Internet of Things. Andy Jassy
We always had a lot of optimism for this game, New World.’ Customers really liked it; it tested really well. Andy Jassy
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. Andy Jassy
It’s easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which we all want to do, you have to make bets and you have to be willing to fail. Andy Jassy
If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It’s something that’s very important to me and I think a lot of my peers. Andy Jassy
We’d realized in the first ten years we’d built an infrastructure competence deep in the stack – reliable, scalable cost effective data centers to grow the Amazon retail biz the way we needed to. But we’d built Amazon so quickly that a number of the pieces of the platform had become entangled. Andy Jassy
I think it’s scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in U.S. businesses and potential credit ratings if we don’t make sure that we raise that debt ceiling. Andy Jassy
For me, it was valuable just to be able to watch how Jeff operated every day, as well as his leaders and his direct reports. Andy Jassy
AWS moves fast, listens to customers, and creates value on top of our already successful cloud-computing infrastructure. We’re consistently thinking two to five years forward. Andy Jassy
During the pandemic in our fulfillment centers, we had a system and a process around people being able to request short and long term leave and the process just didn’t scale. Andy Jassy
There are certain jobs where you can just as easily, in some cases more effectively, work remotely. If you take an engineer, for example, when they get into the mode of coding, being on their own where they’re not distracted or interrupted is very helpful. Andy Jassy
Between what we do with Alexa and what we do in the living room, I think we have an opportunity to change what’s possible for people and what’s accessible to people. Andy Jassy
If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet. Andy Jassy
When you need to make changes, even when people don’t want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself. Andy Jassy
We don’t think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective. Andy Jassy
You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do. Andy Jassy
I remember in 2007, 2008, when we had the recession, there were all of these very gloomy emails sent from a lot of venture capitalists, saying, Don’t expect to get funded.’ Andy Jassy
In our business, you have to be able to have access to capital. Andy Jassy
Even when we go back to having meetings in person, we will continue to incorporate a lot of the things we learned in virtual meetings to make sure we get the right engagement from all of our remote teammates. Andy Jassy
In the past we’ve tried to hire people in locations where we have critical mass, because we thought it was better for people’s career development and easier for them to collaborate. We realized if you have somebody in a particular location who is willing to work the hours to be able to collaborate, you can do it very efficiently. Andy Jassy
We’re talking about the national security of our country and modernizing their technology platforms and the foundation on which all those applications are going to be used to protect our country. You have to make sure these decisions are made truly objectively. Andy Jassy
You just can’t learn certain lessons until you get to different elbows of the curve in scale. With a business that most estimate is several times the size of the next nine providers combined, we’ve learned certain lessons that you just can’t learn until you get to that level of scale. Andy Jassy
It’s not a surprise to us that every large technology company is trying to build an offering like AWS’ because it’s such a good value proposition for customers. Andy Jassy
I think a lot of societal good is already being done with facial recognition technology. Andy Jassy
I think if you have a large group of people like we do – we have 1.2 million employees – it’s almost like a small country. Andy Jassy
Most meetings largely take place in one physical location, and then people plug in remotely. But they are a little bit off to the side; they can’t participate in the meeting as fully as you like. Andy Jassy
Jeff is an incredibly unusual leader who is unbelievably talented and I learned a massive amount. Andy Jassy
What I did know from having started businesses before Amazon, as well as from my time at Amazon, was that when you are trying to do something new, it’s really a waste of energy to spend a lot of cycles wondering whether it’s going to be a success or not. Andy Jassy
We’ve had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we’ve never had any reported misuse of law enforcement using the facial recognition technology. Andy Jassy
Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years. Andy Jassy
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. Andy Jassy
If you’re flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it’s a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers. Andy Jassy