Focus Quotes

For the last 10 years, we've really been focusing on connecting friends and family, and now the next focus on top of that is going to be helping to build communities.

I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing.

We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world - and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Focus relentlessly and passionately on the customer.

The teacher complained to my mother that I was too task-focused and that she couldn't get me to switch tasks, so she would have to just pick up my chair and move me. And by the way, if you ask the people who work with me, that's still probably true today.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

Amazon is not too big to fail ... If we start to focus on ourselves, instead of focusing on our customers, that will be the beginning of the end ... We have to try and delay that day for as long as possible.

Focus on cost improvement makes it possible for us to afford lower prices, which drives growth. Growth spreads fixed costs across more sales, reducing cost per unit, which makes possible more price reductions. Customers like this, and it's good for shareholders. Please expect us to repeat this loop.

One advantage - perhaps a somewhat subtle one - of a customer-driven focus is that it aids a certain type of proactivity. When we're at our best, we don't wait for external pressures. We are internally driven to improve our services, adding benefits and features, before we have to.

We must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes. We must initiate processes rather than occupy spaces.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.